Think Twice opens biggest store yet in Antwerp

Lithuanian vintage specialist Think Twice is opening a new shop near Antwerp’s main shopping street Meir. It will be the chain’s fifth shop in Belgium’s fashion capital, and the biggest in the country.

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On 20 January, Think Twice will open a 500 sqm shop in Antwerp, that will feature 7,000 second-hand clothes. “It was time for us to start thinking big”, managing director Glen Van Eersel told local newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen.

Think Twice already is a big name in the city, with already four branches in the city centre. The formula’s strategy is to have several shops within a city, which together form a triangle or square, so that customers can easily go from one shop to another.

Benefiting from the vintage trend, the Lithuanian chain is now looking to expand further in Belgium – and also into the Netherlands. The clothes are bought internationally, collected and sorted in Lithuania by parent company Humana, a non-profit organisation that supports projects in developing countries through second-hand shops. In total, the group has more than 3,000 employees, 200 shops (including twelve in Belgium) and a webshop.