# Snappy Snaps

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{{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](/source/Chiswick), London
| logo_caption     = Official Snappy Snaps Logo
| type             = [Private](/source/Private_company)
| foundation       = 1983
| founder          = Don Kennedy and Tim MacAndrews
| location_city    = [London](/source/London)
| location_country = [UK](/source/UK)
| locations        = 120
| area_served      = UK
| industry         = [Retail](/source/Retail)
| products         = Photo prints and gifts
| services         = Photo printing and processing
| homepage         = {{URL|snappysnaps.co.uk}}
}}
'''Snappy Snaps''' is a British [photographic services](/source/photography) [franchise](/source/Franchising) 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](/source/photographic_film) processing<ref name='hour'>{{Cite web|url=http://www.snappysnaps.co.uk/photo-printing/1-hour-photo-processing.php|title = Online Photo Printing &#124; Print Photos Online &#124; 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 &#124; Photo Prints &#124; 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](/source/Identity_Cards_Act_2006).<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](/source/Hampstead), London, featured in the news after the singer [George Michael](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Roadside_memorial)" 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>

==References==
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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

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