McColl Partners, LLC acted as financial advisor to D.N.K. Management, Inc. and affiliates, a leading group of specialty retailers, in a management recapitalization with Golden Gate Capital. The combined companies will operate as APOGEE Retail, LLC ("APOGEE").

About APOGEE Retail, LLC

APOGEE is a leading specialty retailer with 19 stores located in Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, and Virginia. Over the past several decades, APOGEE's management team has pioneered an innovative business model that provides significant value to its customers. APOGEE's stores offer a variety of unique clothing and household goods in appealing shopping environments and employ over 1,600 individuals.

About Golden Gate Capital

Golden Gate Capital is a San Francisco-based private equity group with approximately $3.0 billion of capital under management. The principals of Golden Gate Capital have a long and successful history of investing with management partners across a wide range of industries and transaction types, including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate divestitures and spin-offs, build-ups, and venture stage investing.

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, please contact Lorin DeMordaunt at (704) 333-0525.  More information about McColl Partners can be found at www.mccollpartners.com.