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Tandy Leather Factory Opens Retail Store in Tucson, AZ

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  Published in House and Home on Wednesday, January 14th 2009 at 12:14 GMT, Last Modified on 2009-01-14 12:15:29 by Market Wire
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FORT WORTH, Texas--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Tandy Leather Factory, Inc. (AMEX: TLF) announced today that it is opening a new retail store in Tucson, Arizona. This is the first of an expected four store openings in 2009 and brings the number of Tandy Leather retail stores to 74. The new store is located at 6061 East Broadway Boulevard, Suite 118 in Tucson and is open for business as of today.

Chief Executive Officer, Ron Morgan, commented, "We are excited to be opening a Tandy Leather retail store in Tucson. It should be a nice compliment to our Leather Factory wholesale store located approximately six miles away. We have a solid retail customer base in the Tucson area and believe we can expand that base with a local store. Krystal Wright will be managing the new store. She has been training in our Austin store for six months under one of our best training managers and has several years of customer service experience in the retail industry. I have no doubt that she will do well managing her own store."

Tandy Leather Factory, Inc., ([ http://www.tandyleatherfactory.com ]), headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is a specialty retailer and wholesale distributor of a broad product line including leather, leatherworking tools, buckles and adornments for belts, leather dyes and finishes, saddle and tack hardware, and do-it-yourself kits. The Company distributes its products through its 29 Leather Factory stores, located in 19 states and 3 Canadian provinces, 74 Tandy Leather retail stores, located in 35 states and 5 Canadian provinces, one combination wholesale/retail store located in the United Kingdom, and Mid-Continent Leather Sales, one store located in Oklahoma. Its common stock trades on the American Stock Exchange with the symbol "TLF". To be included on Tandy Leather Factory's email distribution list, go to [ http://www.b2i.us/irpass.asp?BzID=1625&to=ea&s=0 ].

This news release may contain statements regarding future events, occurrences, circumstances, activities, performance, outcomes and results that are considered "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results and events may differ from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to: changes in general economic conditions, negative trends in general consumer-spending levels, failure to realize the anticipated benefits of opening retail stores; availability of hides and leathers and resultant price fluctuations; change in customer preferences for our product, and other factors disclosed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and except as required by law, we do not intend to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.