McColl Partners, LLC acted as financial advisor to Carolina Wholesale Group ("Carolina Wholesale") in its recent $50 million senior debt raise. Wachovia Capital Finance provided the Company's asset-based lending facility, and Wachovia Commercial Banking Group provided the senior term loan.

About Carolina Wholesale Group

Carolina Wholesale, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a leading wholesale distributor of office machines and imaging supplies. As a result of the Company's dominant brands and national reach, the Company maintains an attractive market share in a number of key product offerings. Carolina Wholesale's suppliers include Hewlett-Packard, Lexmark, Xerox, and Canon.

About McColl Partners, LLC

McColl Partners is an independent investment banking firm specializing in the needs of management and owners of middle-market companies.  With significant experience working with private equity groups, entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses, public companies, financial institutions, and divisions of large companies, the firm is dedicated to offering strategic advice and assistance to its clients regarding mergers and acquisitions and private capital raising assignments.

For more information about our Consumer Group and our Private Capital Solutions Group, please contact Lorin DeMordaunt or John Deering at (704) 333-0525.  More information about McColl Partners can be found at www.mccollpartners.com.