McColl Partners, LLC acted as financial advisor to the management of The Mitchell Gold Company ("Mitchell Gold" or the "Company") in its acquisition of the Company from The Rowe Companies ("Rowe").  The Mitchell Gold Company was founded in 1989 by Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams and then sold to Rowe in 1998.  Through the most recent transaction, Gold and Williams along with Wafra Partners acquired control of the Company.

About The Mitchell Gold Company

Mitchell Gold, headquartered in Taylorsville, North Carolina, is a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of upholstered furniture. Since its inception more than 10 years ago, the Company's sales have reached in excess of $70 million.  Its products are sold through some of the country's top furniture retailers, including Crate & Barrel, Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware, Anthropologie, and ABC Carpet & Home, as well as through leading catalogs such as L.L. Bean, Neiman Marcus, Pottery Barn, and Pottery Barn Kids.

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.