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  1. 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. In 2007, he was estimated to be the 89th-richest person in the United States, at $3.6 ...

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  2. 3 days ago · The J.R. Simplot Company began to take shape in the farm fields of southern Idaho in the late 1920s. Still privately held and headquartered in Boise, Idaho, Simplot has grown into an international agribusiness company that operates in more than 60 countries with more than 13,000 employees worldwide.

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  4. About our Founder. J.R. Simplot had the inherent ability to see possibilities where others saw obstacles, and the resolve to act on them—helping him turn a one-man farming operation into a global food and agribusiness enterprise.

  5. Companies by Letter. # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z. J.R. Simplot Company. Address: 999 Main Street. Boise, Idaho 83702. U.S.A. Telephone: (208) 336-2110. Fax: (208) 389-7515. http://www.simplot.com. Statistics: Private Company. Incorporated: 1956. Employees: 12,000. Sales: $3 billion (2002 est.)

  6. 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...

  7. Simplot is the West's largest beef cattle producer, and the number one company nationwide for both feedlot cattle output and cow-calf production. The firm's two feedlots in Idaho and Washington turn out more than 400,000 head a year, and the Grand View, Idaho, lot's one-time holding capacity of 150,000 is the biggest in the world.

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