; January 4, 1909 – May 25, 2008) was an American entrepreneur and businessman best known as the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, a Boise, Idaho based agricultural supplier specializing in potato ...

BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - J.R. Simplot, the billionaire founder of the Boise, Idaho-based agriculture business that bears his name and who helped make French fries a staple of the American diet and ...

J R Simplot, who has died aged 99, was the potato king of America whose wealth helped create one of the world's biggest computer chip makers. The Idaho farmer increasingly dominated the state's ...

Simplot Co J.R.'s most active month to dispose stocks was the month of January. 2019 saw Simplot Co J.R. paying a total of $3,000,000.00 for 2,000,000 shares, this is the most they've acquired in one ...

This story was updated Tuesday, April 1, to add two paragraphs of comment from the city of Boise. Change may be coming soon to Simplot Hill, the site just off Bogus Basin Road where the mansion ...

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 ...

Boise, ID, Jan. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The J.R. Simplot Company, a privately held food and agribusiness company headquartered in Boise, Idaho, announced it has finalized the acquisition of ...