National Wholesale Co. was well-prepared long before its founder’s passing

By Paul Miller

Like Swann, “Eddie was a cheerleader,” McMahan says. “He was all over the building. He had this unbelievable instinct about people and their strengths, and knew how to encourage them. You realized you weren’t doing it just because it was a job, but because somehow, with his encouragement, you continued to climb to do that.”