Tandy Leather Factory, Inc. has announced that it is opening a Tandy Leather retail store in Jacksonville, Florida. The store is expected to open for business next week. This is the seventh retail store opened in 2005 and brings the total number of Tandy Leather retail stores to 49.

Chairman and CEO, Wray Thompson, commented, "We are excited to be moving into northern Florida. Coupled with our existing Tandy store in Orlando and our Leather Factory centre in Tampa, the addition of Jacksonville solidifies our market coverage of the northern half of the state…”