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John Richard Simplot (/ ˈ s ɪ m p l ɒ t /; 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 products.
Simplot was founded in 1929 by 20-year-old John Richard Simplot near the agricultural community of Declo in south central Idaho, United States. [2] During the early 1940s, the business expanded, providing the military with dehydrated onions and potatoes during World War II.
J.R. Simplot’s mansion is gone, but the 30-by-50-foot U.S. flag on a 200-foot pole remains a city landmark. ... It was 1979 when potato king J.R. Simplot built a 7,370-square-foot, Mediterranean ...
Grand Forks is a city in and the county seat of Grand Forks County, North Dakota, ... Major food producers include potato processor J. R. Simplot Company [56] ...
McCain Foods Limited is a Canadian multinational frozen food company established in 1957 in Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada. [2]It is the world's largest manufacturer of frozen potato products, with 1 in 4 french fries in the world being a McCain fry. [3]
J. R. Simplot, once among the 100 richest Americans, bought 2,200 acres (3.4 sq mi; 8.9 km 2) of undeveloped land in the Boise foothills in 1947 for five dollars an acre. [3] Thirty-two years later in 1979, he built a Mediterranean-style villa on the land, located at 4000 Simplot Lane, on the top of a prominent hill in what had become the ...
In the mid-1970s, Taggares and his competitor, J. R. Simplot, were involved in the largest default in the history of American commodities futures trading. [6] The incident, which led to a fine and temporary suspension from futures trading , nearly destroyed the New York Mercantile Exchange .
The North Dakota Mill and Elevator is the largest flour mill in the United States.It is located in the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota.Established by the state government when it was led by Nonpartisan League representatives, it is the only state-owned milling facility in the United States. [2]