J.R. Simplot never dealt with small potatoes. This is a man who dropped out of school in the eighth grade and went on to ...

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 ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Ada County Coroner Erwin Sonnenberg says Idaho frozen food magnate J.R. Simplot died Sunday in his Boise. He was 99. Sonnenberg says Simplot died of natural causes. In the 1950s, ...

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 ...

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 ...