FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 29, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tandy Leather Factory, Inc. (NASDAQ:TLF) announced today that it is opening a new retail store in Nyack, NY. This brings the number of retail stores to 83 and the first new store opened in 2016. The store will open this week at 298 Main Street in Nyack.
Interim Chief Executive Officer, Shannon L. Greene, commented, “We are pleased to be opening this new store in Nyack as it provides us with a local presence that is closer to New York City and surrounding areas. We have a solid customer base in that area and believe we can continue to grow that base by being in closer proximity.”
Tandy Leather Factory, Inc., (http://www.tandyleather.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 28 Leather Factory stores, located in 19 states and 3 Canadian provinces, 82 Tandy Leather retail stores, located in 36 states and 6 Canadian provinces, and four combination wholesale/retail stores located in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Spain. Its common stock trades on the Nasdaq 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.
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