Short Cuts

Handicrafts direct marketer Tandy Leather, a division of Tandycrafts Inc., Fort Worth, TX, has launched a commercial Web site (http://www.tandyleather.com).

Saturation mailer Advo Inc., Windsor, CT, has authorized a new stock repurchase program for up to 1.4 million shares through March 30, 2000. This new program adds a million shares to the approximately 420,000 shares remaining from the prior buyback program. Since September 1997, Advo had purchased about 3.1 million shares of its stock.

Devon Direct Marketing & Advertising Inc., Philadelphia, promoted Dehlia Towler and Birgitta A. Sama to associate creative director, a new position at the agency. Both had held the position of executive art director.