who owns yeti cycles?

are they truly independent?  i honestly haven't thought of them seriously in nearly a generation, pretty much since the f.r.o. and yeti ultimate days.  i know they got royally fucked by schwinn and then went through even worse shit in the aftermath of the schwinn debacle, but looking at their site now, i see a few things.  first, they make too many different models.  second, it looks like they have a really big staff.  third, they claim to be an independent company.  that seems quite unlikely to me.  how do they sell enough yeti's to support the company, and where do they sell them?  is it some weird situation where everybody in the states thinks they're shit, but they sell them by the bucketload to places like england, austria, malaysia, and australia as some sort of hip, american, bullshit, boutique, high-end, high-price product?  weird.  i  haven't seen a recent yeti since, well, it was one of the aluminum f.r.o.'s many, many years ago, which i think they still make, and before that it was a brand-new and very cool ultimate.  very weird.  the current 29er on their site looks awful with a cheesy plastic carbon fucking rear end.  that's like so 2001.  it also doesn't look like they do customs.  between that, the goofy 29er and the waayyy too many different suspension frames, i don't see how they're making this work.  i guess nobody asked me.

i'd think about a custom or semi-custom arc or arc 29er if they were available, though, assuming they were really made in colorado somewhere, even if that somewhere isn't durango anymore--and assuming you could get the solid turquoise or turquoise and yellow classic paint.