Kringloopwinkel Steenwijk

What Kringloopwinkel Steenwijk does

Kringloopwinkel Steenwijk is a non-profit thrift store (Dutch: kringloopwinkel) based in Tuk, Overijssel, Netherlands, founded in 1994 and operating with approximately 16 employees. The name translates to "Steenwijk recycling shop," indicating a circular-economy retail model that collects, sorts, and resells donated secondhand goods — clothing, furniture, household items, and similar merchandise typical of Dutch kringloopwinkels — to local residents and visitors in the Steenwijk region. The store serves a single geographic catchment from one physical location, with no disclosed expansion to additional sites.

The business model is retail-based and donation-driven: goods are sourced from the local community, refurbished or sorted as needed, and resold at low prices, with proceeds typically directed toward charitable causes or reinvested into operations under standard Dutch non-profit kringloopwinkel practice. No pricing structure, supplier agreements, product categories, e-commerce channels, or customer segmentation details are disclosed in the available source material. No technology stack, integrations, certifications, partnerships, management roster, or financial disclosures are available for this entity.

Available data is extremely thin: the company's public website returned only a loading/verification state during data collection, and no structured disclosures — including revenue, customer information, leadership team, regulatory filings, or strategic actions — were captured. As a result, the analytical scope of this report is necessarily limited to the firmographic profile and the general operating model implied by the entity's name and non-profit status.

Name

Kringloopwinkel Steenwijk

Website

https://kringloopwinkelsteenwijk.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kringloopwinkel Steenwijk is a small non-profit thrift store in Tuk, Overijssel, Netherlands, founded in 1994 with about 16 employees, reselling donated secondhand goods to local customers under the Dutch kringloopwinkel (circular retail) model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Thrift and Second-Hand Retail

NAICS

Used Merchandise Retailers (459510)

SIC

Retail-Miscellaneous Shopping Goods Stores (5940)

akta.pro primary industry

Apparel, Footwear & Accessories Resale (CRAFAGAA)

Keywords

• Second-hand retail
• Thrift store operations
• Used goods resale
• Nonprofit retail
• Reuse and donation

Headquarters

HQ city

Tuk, Overijssel

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Kringloopwinkel Steenwijk is a nonprofit thrift store (kringloopwinkel) based in Tuk, Overijssel, Netherlands, founded in 1994. The store accepts donated second-hand goods such as clothing, furniture, and household items, and resells them to local consumers at affordable prices. With 16 employees, it operates as a community-oriented reuse and resale retail outlet.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Second-hand clothing and textiles

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Marktplaats: Largest Dutch C2C classifieds marketplace, owned by Adevinta. Competes for secondhand goods transactions across multiple categories, presenting a digital alternative to physical kringloopwinkels for Dutch consumers.

Emerging players

• Vestiaire Collective: Global luxury fashion resale platform. Comparable to the higher-end secondhand apparel segment that some kringloopwinkels capture, but operating as a curated online marketplace rather than charity retail.
• Catawiki: Dutch-headquartered online auction platform for collectibles, art, and specialty secondhand items. Overlaps with the higher-value, specialty inventory (collectibles, antiques) that kringloopwinkels often carry.
• Vinted: Major C2C fashion resale platform operating in the Netherlands. Comparable as a secondhand apparel destination for Dutch consumers, though competing via an online marketplace model rather than physical stores.

Direct peers

• Het Goed: Dutch chain of kringloopwinkels (secondhand stores) operating multiple locations across the Netherlands. Directly comparable as a multi-store non-profit/charity secondhand retailer in the same market.
• Episode (Kringloopwinkel): Dutch kringloopwinkel chain with multiple stores across the Netherlands. Directly comparable as a non-profit secondhand retailer operating physical stores in the same Dutch market.
• Kringloop Zwolle: Kringloopwinkel located in Zwolle, Overijssel — the same province as the subject company. Highly comparable as a regional non-profit secondhand retailer with a similar local-store operating model.
• Kringloopwinkel Het Gooi: Regional Dutch kringloopwinkel chain operating multiple secondhand stores in the Het Gooi region. Comparable as a non-profit multi-store secondhand retailer serving a defined Dutch catchment.
• ReShare (Lumilabs Foundation): Dutch kringloopwinkel chain operating under the Lumilabs Foundation, collecting and reselling secondhand clothing and textiles nationally. Directly comparable as a non-profit secondhand retailer in the same Dutch market.

Regional players

• 2dehands: Belgian C2C classifieds marketplace for secondhand goods. Comparable in offering secondhand consumer goods transactions, though anchored in Belgian rather than Dutch primary market.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

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Investors

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M&A

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