I’m afraid I don’t know that history of the company. I would bet that Simplot wanted to invest in jobs and tech, here.
The current CEO seems to just want jobs for his family.
Years ago I worked for the ad agency in Boise that handled Simplot’s Food and Mineral divisions’ accounts. Simplot also had just started Micron, which grew pretty fast. I was just curious whether Micron was still under the Simplot umbrella or had been spun off. At the time Simplot was one of the largest privately-owned companies in the country. If they still run Micron it appears they’ve metastasized since then.