Established in 1953, Samir Photographic Supplies is one of the country’s business success stories. From nothing, it is phenomenal how the founder, the late Sheikh Hamed Mahmoud Al Hindi set-up and managed his business in the midst of such undeveloped country like Saudi Arabia in the early fifties.
From a small retail shop called Studio Samir selling cameras, films, chemicals for developing, etc., at the downtown Jeddah, it has expanded and was later appointed as the Kodak Distributor for the Western and Central Provinces of Saudi Arabia in 1958 until Kodak distributorship became Kingdom wide in 1970, where retail and wholesale of Kodak products were exclusively marketed through SPS.
With the creative mind, hard work and dedication of its Founder, Sheikh Hamed Mahmood Al-Hindi was born a company that revolutionized the photography and imaging industry in Saudi Arabia.
Aside from its core business of photography and imaging, SPS through strategic agreements and partnerships also has a major role in various industries and one of these is its Medical and Clinical Laboratories.
Since the establishment of its Medical Division, SPS succeeded in bringing into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia healthcare products and services and continues to fill-in the growing requirements of private and government hospitals’ blood bank, cardiology, laboratory, radiology, dental, robotics and other medical fields.
SPS Medical Division also represents various international brands and is leading in the Saudi Arabian market in the supply and installation of state-of-the-art medical imaging equipments. We are not only known for our product portfolio but also with our top caliber and highly trained service engineers regularly attending in-house training, product trainings and seminars abroad.
SPS Copy Products Division has gone a long way since the company first marketed Kodak copiers in Saudi Arabia in 1985. And, when the world went digital its Copy Products Division progressively went along in that direction.
With a wider range of technologically advanced products, SPS Copy Products Division has led its migration to digital imaging as they had done the mid volume and high volume segments of copier/printer market. The division also bid establishing a “one-stop-shop” environment attracting more and more customers and serve their needs, thereby changing its image of purely selling to purely consulting in capturing, storing, editing, printing, and projecting images whether colored or black and white.
Equipped with state-of-the-art QSS digital printing machines, SPS retail shops are known for developing and printing high quality photographs in quicker turnaround times. High quality pictures however do not happen by chance. SPS retail shops are manned by professional operators and printers, trained to produce nothing but quality prints.
SPS Retail Shops are laid out with customer’s needs in mind. At glance, customers can find what they need without rummaging through a pile of products. In addition, these stores exude a friendly atmosphere known throughout the Kingdom. Customers are never left to fend for themselves in every SPS retail shops but treated with high importance by the staff.
Today, Samir Photographic Supplies is in the stellar list of top 100 companies in Saudi Arabia and dominating the consumer business in the Kingdom, SPS has more than 20 retail outlets mostly located in world class malls and shopping centers all over the country. Its over 550 employees distributed in three major cities of Riyadh, Jeddah and Al-Khobar are continuing to carry into new markets its more than fifty tradition of excellence and quality service.
The foundation of Samir Photographic Supplies’ rapid growth has been its strategy to establish dominant market coverage complemented by its people, management skills, creative marketing programs and efficient customer relationships that supports its retail stores expansion. It is powered by the teams of well-trained individuals embracing the SPS culture of integrity and humility, working in a family-like environment of fun and togetherness.
Head Office – JEDDAH
Tel: +966 2 682-8219
Fax: +966 2 683-0820
RIYADH
Tel: +966 1 464-5064
Fax: +966 1 465-7912
KHOBAR
Tel: +966 3 894-2674
Fax: +966 3 894-8162
Toll Free
800 2 444 100