[Caddylackn]

This is all to common when the original company founders get older, and want to retire. They have a choice to leave it to their kids, assuming they know anything, or sell out.

I would rather see a successful owner operated company bought out by a larger successful company, then have the original owner's kids and in-laws take over the company after pops retire and slowly run the company and name into the ground with bad sourced cheap parts and poor customer service.

Nothing more frustrating then buying parts from a name brand that you think is good/premium, only to find out that it now cheap subpar. I can think of a few large tool manufacturers for example......