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Serious Player Only

300 pairs sold in five months. And a brand more and more people search for in France.

An international basketball sneaker brand, distributed exclusively in France by Elite Expansion, and also sold across Europe.

Client
Serious Player Only
Sector
Basketball sneakers
Channel
Exclusive distribution
Markets
France, Europe
Period
May to September 2026
Team
Miguel Menargues and Habib Diallo
The numbers
Pairs sold300
Google searches, year on year+243%
Sponsored events2
How to read these numbers

Pairs sold: orders from the seriousplayeronly.eu store, May to September 2026 (Shopify). Google searches: monthly searches in France for “serious player only”, latest month compared with the same month a year earlier (+243%) and three months earlier (+85%), according to the Google Ads Keyword Planner in October 2026. Events: Crown Games and South Cup, as official sponsor.

The starting point

Serious Player Only is an international basketball sneaker brand. We are its exclusive distributor in France, and also sell it across Europe: the first products went live in April 2026, the Player1.5 in May. Our job: make the brand known and sell it, end to end.

The workstreams

What we do, end to end.

  1. 01/06

    Stock in Mâcon

    We buy and store the pairs at our hub in Mâcon, and track stock size by size.

  2. 02/06

    The store

    The seriousplayeronly.eu store, built by our team on Shopify, in French: shoes, interchangeable insoles, apparel and accessories, from EU 31 to 50.5.

  3. 03/06

    Every release

    April: the first products. May: the Player1.5. June and July: the special editions, from Budapest to Black Swan in a Swarovski edition. September: eight new colorways, the Page1 kids’ collection and sizes 38 and 39.

  4. 04/06

    Acquisition and creatives

    We run the brand’s campaigns, and produce its stories, reels, product visuals and infographics.

  5. 05/06

    On the ground

    Official sponsor of the Crown Games and the South Cup, in Serious Player Only colors.

  6. 06/06

    Customer service

    We answer the store’s customers, from size advice to returns.

The key takeaway

We sell our own brands. That is why we know how to sell yours.

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