Credit: Alpha Studio 03/Shutterstock. A strike at Belgium’s Clarebout Potatoes, which is in the throes of a takeover by US-based JR Simplot, has entered a fifth day. The industrial action across ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was 1979 when potato king J.R. Simplot built a 7,370-square-foot, Mediterranean-style mansion atop a prominent hill in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Change may be coming soon to Simplot Hill, the site just off Bogus Basin Road where the mansion belonging to the late Idaho potato ...

BOISE Idaho J.R. “Jack” Simplot, the founder of restaurant-industry supplier J.R. Simplot Co. and a key figure in the early growth of quick-service chains like McDonald’s, died peacefully at his home ...

Credit: Alpha Studio 03/Shutterstock. US agri-food group JR Simplot has agreed to acquire Belgian potato-processing company Clarebout Potatoes for an undisclosed sum. The deal, which is expected to be ...

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GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- After a day-long union meeting, employees of J.R. Simplot went on strike, picketing outside the potato processing plant in Grand Forks about 6 p.m. Monday. The strike came shortly ...

PITTSBURGH & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Kraft Heinz Company (Nasdaq: KHC) (“Kraft Heinz” or the “Company”) and Simplot Food Group, a division of the J.R. Simplot Company (“Simplot”), announced ...

It was 1979 when potato king J.R. Simplot built a 7,370-square-foot, Mediterranean-style mansion atop a prominent hill in the Boise Highlands. Although the mansion has since been demolished, Simplot’s ...