TAMKO Founder - E.L. Craig
In 1944, at the age of 69, E.L. Craig began a roofing business in an old streetcar barn in Joplin, Missouri. Mrs. Mary Ethel Craig named the company TAMKO — from the first letters of the five states the company anticipated as its sales territory: Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. The Craigs' daughter, Ethelmae, directed TAMKO's operations during the '50s and has continued as TAMKO's chairman to this day. In 1960, Ethelmae's husband, J.P. (Jay) Humphreys, became TAMKO's president.
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Employees with a military background generally fit well into the TAMKO culture. Every TAMKO employee must understand our culture of honesty, integrity and compliance. Finding TAMKO's core values in the people we hire is important, but qualities like leadership, decision making skills, independent thinking and the ability to deal with adversity and hardship are things we look for as well. TAMKO is proud to have many of our leadership positions filled by our country's service men and women.