Snap-on Incorporated is an American designer, manufacturer and marketer of high-end tools and equipment for professional use in the transportation industry including the automotive, heavy duty, equipment, marine, aviation, and railroad industries.
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Snap-on produces hand-held electronic diagnostic tools for the computer systems used in most modern cars and heavy duty vehicles at their Kenosha site, along with sockets, extension bars, pliers, and screwdriver blades and bits.
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Snap-on tools are sold only by dealers and not in retail stores.
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Snap-on has always maintained the philosophy that the customer's time was too valuable to spend going shopping for tools.
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Snap-on franchisees visit their customers in their place of work, once weekly, in a van loaded with items for purchase.
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Snap-on TechKnow Express is a van that showcases everything Snap-on has to offer in the realm of diagnostic equipment, and the Rock 'n Roll Cab Express is a truck with various types of tool storage showing customization options, including units larger than what can fit on a standard franchisee van.
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The next year, Snap-on opened a manufacturing plant in Johnson City, Tennessee and closed the plant in 2007.
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In March 2021, Snap-on acquired Canada-based Dealer-FX Group for $200 million.
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Snap-on sponsored NHRA drag racer Doug Herbert from 1992 until 2008.
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