JR Simplot, who died on May 25 aged 99, made a billion-dollar fortune selling frozen chips to the McDonald's fast food chain and later invested it in the production of microchips for personal ...

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 ...

JR Simplot, the billionaire founder of the Idaho-based agriculture business that bears his name and who helped make French fries a staple of the American diet and waistline, died on Sunday at the age ...

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 ...

Oct. 7—MOSES LAKE — The Association of Washington Business stopped at the J.R. Simplot factory in Moses Lake on Friday, during day three of their eighth-annual Manufacturing Week bus tour. "We're out ...

DALLAS, May 07, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ISN, the global leader in contractor and supplier information management services, announced The J.R. Simplot Company (Simplot), a leader in food and agriculture ...

Property purchased by the city of East Grand Forks in a land exchange with the J.R. Simplot Company is already receiving interest from several different developers. There ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co.'s new genetically modified potato - thought business partner McDonald's has not. The fast-food giant said it doesn't use ...

The Klaus Thiessen Award has been in existence since 2014, but it had never gone to an agribusiness — until this year.