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 ...

In 2010, the food processing factory’s long-term viability was in doubt, suffering from slowing consumer demand for Simplot’s Birdseye brand frozen vegetable products, a distressed balance sheet and ...

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 ...

Workers for food manufacturing company Simplot, in Tasmania's north-west, will vote next week on a proposal to end a long-running pay dispute. The company and the Manufacturing Workers Union reached ...

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The Simplot vegetable processing facilities at Bathurst, NSW, and Devonport, Tasmania, will both remain open for at least three years. However, the Bathurst plant will have the amount of vegetables it ...

Also fuelled by extra earnings harvested from the sliding value of the Australian dollar relative to the US dollar, Simplot has posted one of the strongest profit rises for the food industry at a time ...

Simplot, the US-based agri-food group, is looking to launch Australian snacks brand Chiko into other markets. The company this week used the Anuga industry exhibition, held in the German city of ...

Durham, North Carolina, March 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vestaron Corporation, a leading innovator in sustainable crop protection solutions, and Simplot Grower Solutions, a North American ...

DOES the American Dream come with fries or hash browns? In Jack Simplot's version, it came with both. Starting out at 14 with little education and only $80 from his mother, Mr Simplot died a ...