Against a mass market and low-cost imported boards, keeping an excellent local craft alive is an economic challenge. The Shapers Club ecosystem answers it through collaboration.
Pooling to create freely
By centralising the heaviest logistics in its Marennes facility, the club lets many makers — local and international — focus on their core craft: creating unique gliding shapes. A cooperative model on a European scale.
Three tools, one network
- Shapers Dealer acts as a European buying group: rigorously selected foam blanks, cloth, resins and fins, at competitive prices for workshops.
- Surfers Dealer offers a consumer marketplace of new and used boards from the club’s workshops, giving small makers visibility.
- Shapers Club House unifies the offer: technical clothing, accessories and exclusive ready-to-ship boards.
The point of a model
Behind these platforms, one conviction: craft survives better together than alone. By sharing materials, logistics and visibility, the network protects the diversity of shapers — precisely what this editorial hub sets out to make known. A counter-model to standardisation, rooted in a territory.