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John Richard Simplot (/ ˈsɪmplɒt /; 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. [2][3] In 2007, he was estimated to be the 89th-richest person in the United States, at $ 3.6 ...
Special to The Times. J.R. Simplot, whose lifetime fascination with the potato helped change the nation’s eating habits and made him a billionaire, died Sunday. He was 99. Simplot, who in his ...
Key Dates: 1928: John Richard Simplot and Lindsay Maggart purchase an electrically driven potato sorter. 1929: Simplot begins to lay the groundwork for his potato empire. 1940: Simplot now operates 33 potato warehouses. 1942: Simplot begins to supply the U.S. military with dried potatoes. 1956: The J.R. Simplot Company is incorporated.
May 28, 2008 · May 28, 2008. J. R. Simplot, a billionaire who grew up in a sod-roofed log cabin and dropped out of school at 14, then marshaled luck, spunk and inventiveness to fashion an entrepreneurial career ...
With a legacy of excellence in the food industry, Lamb Weston continually invests in its production capabilities to meet the demands of a growing market. This profile of J.R. Simplot, inventor of the frozen french fry, was previously published in 1996. J.R Simplot died Sunday, May 25, 2008, at his home in Boise at the age of 99.
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. The firm was incorporated as the J. R. Simplot Company in 1955.
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May 25, 2008 · In 1980, at age 71, Simplot took a gamble on the next generation of businessmen, giving Ward and Joe Parkinson $1 million for 40 percent of what would become computer chip maker Micron Technology ...
