Related Party Transactions

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

NOTE 18. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

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

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	September 30,				September 30,
	2011		2010		2011		2010
Sales — related parties	$	1,266	$	4,878	$	3,820	$	7,047
Rent expense — related parties		575		713		1,732		2,154

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 three months and nine months ended September 30, 2011 we had sales to two such companies as noted above and aggregate accounts receivable from three such customers totaled $1.0 million at September 30, 2011. During the three months and nine months ended September 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.