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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CALDWELL — Community members and leaders including farmers, executives, and generations of the Simplot family gathered on Friday afternoon to celebrate the agribusiness retail company’s 80 years of ...

EAST GRAND FORKS – East Grand Forks City Council members on Tuesday approved a land exchange between the city and the J.R. Simplot Company, trading a parcel in Grand Forks bought by the council for ...

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