{{short description|British photographic services franchise}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox company | name = Snappy Snaps | logo = | image = Snappy snaps chiswick.jpg | image_caption = Branch in Chiswick, London | logo_caption = Official Snappy Snaps Logo | type = Private | foundation = 1983 | founder = Don Kennedy and Tim MacAndrews | location_city = London | location_country = UK | locations = 120 | area_served = UK | industry = Retail | products = Photo prints and gifts | services = Photo printing and processing | homepage = {{URL|snappysnaps.co.uk}} }} '''Snappy Snaps''' is a British photographic services franchise that was founded in 1983<ref name='ssfran'>{{cite web |url=http://www.snappysnaps.co.uk/snappy-snaps-franchise/ |title=Starting a Franchise : Snappy Snaps |accessdate=2011-06-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110618141609/http://www.snappysnaps.co.uk/snappy-snaps-franchise/ |archivedate=2011-06-18 }}</ref> and joined the Timpson Group in 2013. <ref>https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/enterprise/shoe-repair-company-timpson-group-1240414</ref>
==History== {{Asof|2012|03}} there were 120 Snappy Snaps franchise locations throughout the UK; {{asof|2023|12}}, there are 115 franchise and 9 company-owned stores.<ref name="Timpson group">{{Cite web|url=https://www.timpson-group.co.uk/group-companies/snappy-snaps/|title=Snappy Snaps - Part of the Timpson Group}}</ref> Branches offer various services including one-hour film processing<ref name='hour'>{{Cite web|url=http://www.snappysnaps.co.uk/photo-printing/1-hour-photo-processing.php|title = Online Photo Printing | Print Photos Online | Snappy Snaps - Snappy Snaps}}</ref> and digital photo printing.<ref name='digi'>{{Cite web|url=http://www.snappysnaps.co.uk/photo-printing/|title = Photo Printing | Photo Prints | Online Photo Printing - Snappy Snaps}}</ref>
The first Snappy Snaps one hour photo store opened in 1983. A further three trial stores were added during the following three years and, following the success of these stores, the first franchised Snappy Snaps store opened for business in 1987.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}}
Snappy Snaps was also involved with the now abandoned UK identity card scheme.<ref name='idcard'>{{cite news| url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8036536.stm | work=BBC News | title=Retailers reject ID security fear | date=6 May 2009}}</ref>
The Snappy Snaps branch in Hampstead, London, featured in the news after the singer George Michael drove into the front of the building in the early hours of Sunday 4 July 2010 whilst under the influence of cannabis and prescription medication.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://showbiz.sky.com/george-michael-arrested|title=George Michael Arrested|publisher=Sky Showbiz|accessdate=6 July 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709053320/http://showbiz.sky.com/george-michael-arrested|archivedate=9 July 2010}}</ref> Following Michael's death on Christmas Day 2016, the shop became the site of a "shrine" to the late singer, with fans leaving flowers, cards, messages and toys outside the shop front, much to the annoyance of the store management.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/01/16/shop-george-michael-crashed-into-turned-into-a-shrine/|title=Shop George Michael crashed into turned into a shrine|date=16 January 2017|publisher=pinknews.co.uk|accessdate=16 January 2017|location=London}}</ref>
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Category:Retail companies of the United Kingdom Category:Photographic retailers Category:British companies established in 1983 Category:Retail companies established in 1983 Category:Franchises Category:Photography companies of the United Kingdom Category:1983 establishments in the United Kingdom