Snappy Snaps
{{short description|British photographic services franchise}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Snappy Snaps
| logo =
| 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 = Photographic equipment
| services = Photographic processing
| homepage = {{URL|snappysnaps.co.uk}}
}}
Snappy Snaps is a British photographic services franchise established in 1983 by Don Kennedy and Tim MacAndrews.{{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 }}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.timpson-group.co.uk/group-companies/snappy-snaps/|title=Snappy Snaps - Part of the Timpson Group}} Branches offer various services including one-hour film processing{{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}} and digital photo printing.{{Cite web|url=http://www.snappysnaps.co.uk/photo-printing/|title = Photo Printing | Photo Prints | Online Photo Printing - Snappy Snaps}}
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.{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8036536.stm | work=BBC News | title=Retailers reject ID security fear | date=6 May 2009}}
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.{{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}} 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.{{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}}