What is the ownership structure of the Ernie ball company

I ask, because, whatever their marketing defects, family owned businesses, seem to produce underlying better quality products than their shareholder owned equivalents.

Ref: Martin guitar compared with it’s equivalents, or in the Uk, Glenfiddich whiskey compared with Glenlivet or Fortnum and Masons compared with Harrods(which has not been in the Harrods family for a long time)

Yes the above statements could be taken as gross generalisations.