 Founded as Texas Distributors, Inc., the name TDIndustries was coined in the early 1980s.The first board of directors meeting of Texas Distributors, Inc. was recorded on February 5, 1946 with Jack Lowe, Sr., his mother, Florence Lowe, and her sister, Julia Lee Greer, in attendance.The three of them, according to the minutes, “subscribe for and agree to take” two hundred shares of stock in the company with Greer and Jack Lowe each accepting ninety-nine shares and Florence Lowe two shares, all at a face value of one hundred dollars.