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 ...

J.R. "Jack" Simplot, 99, who launched an agribusiness empire that supplied french fries to the McDonald's fast-food chain and then used his billion-dollar fortune to invest in computer chips, died May ...

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 ...

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 family-owned Clarebout's four production ...

The potential closure of the Moeskroen 1 facility in Belgium places up to 392 jobs at risk.

A potato empire built on frozen fries and handshake deals sounds like an unlikely launching pad for one of the most lucrative ...

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 ...

HELM, Calif., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Drivers at J.R. Simplot have voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Local 431 after months of organizing at this major agricultural company in Central ...

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 ...

The flag at J.R. Simplot's former mansion on Bogus Basin Road flies at half-staff on Monday morning. Joe Jaszewski / Idaho Statesman J.R. Simplot, the state's richest man and an Idaho icon for longer ...