Related Party Transactions

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

NOTE 17. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

During the three months and six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, we had the following related party transactions (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended				Six Months Ended
	June 30,				June 30,
	2011		2010		2011		2010
Sales — related parties	$	1,544	$	1,182	$	2,554	$	1,549
Rent expense — related parties		545		742		1,157		1,441

Sales — Related Parties

Members of our Board of Directors hold various executive positions and serve as directors at other companies, including companies that are our customers. During the six months ended June 30, 2011 we had sales to two such companies as noted above and aggregate accounts receivable from these two customers totaled $0.7 million at June 30, 2011. During the six months ended June 30, 2010 we had sales to two such companies as noted above and aggregate accounts receivable from three such companies totaled $0.4 million at December 31, 2010.

Rent Expense — Related Parties

We lease our executive offices and manufacturing facilities in Fort Collins, Colorado from a limited liability partnership in which Douglas Schatz, our Chairman of the Board and former Chief Executive Officer, holds an interest. The leases relating to these spaces expire during 2015 and obligate us to total annual payments of approximately $2.4 million which includes facilities rent and common area maintenance costs.