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 ...

CHICAGO — The Kraft Heinz Co. and Simplot Food Group, a division of the J.R. Simplot Co., have come to terms on a new agreement establishing Boise, Idaho-based Simplot as the exclusive manufacturer ...

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 ...

US-based agribusiness giant J R Simplot has revealed ambitious plans to expand its agricultural production in China; a move that it says will help the nation cope with the increased competition coming ...

The J.R. Simplot Co. plans to acquire the operating business of Clarebout Potatoes, a Belgium-based processor. The planned acquisition brings together two market leaders in frozen potato products ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Billionaire J.R. Simplot, the spud king of America whose wealth also helped create one of the world's biggest computer chip makers, died Sunday at his Boise home. He was 99. Ada ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved commercial planting of a potato that is genetically modified to resist bruising and to produce less of a chemical that has caused ...

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The US Environmental Protection Agency and US Food and Drug Administration approved a previous gene-modifying technique on Simplot potatoes. AP / Keith Ridler BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho company that ...

PITTSBURGH & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Kraft Heinz Company (Nasdaq: KHC) (“Kraft Heinz” or the “Company”) and Simplot Food Group, a division of the J.R. Simplot Company (“Simplot”), announced ...