In 2010, the food processing factory’s long-term viability was in doubt, suffering from slowing consumer demand for Simplot’s Birdseye brand frozen vegetable products, a distressed balance sheet and ...

Processor Simplot Australia has teamed up with the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture and Applied Horticultural Research to deliver the project. The company, which has plants at Ulverstone and ...

The future of the Simplot Devonport and Bathurst vegetable plants is being decided at board level in America this week, but an announcement by Coles could tip the scales in their favour. In the latest ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. After five months of uncertainty, Simplot Australia announced yesterday that its Devonport frozen vegetable ...

WORKERS at Simplot’s Devonport factory will strike for four hours on Friday as the vegetable processor holds firm over pay negotiations. Simplot — Tasmania’s last remaining vegetable processor — has ...

Workers at the Simplot vegetable processing plant in Ulverstone, on Tasmania's north coast, say they will take industrial action this weekend over a wage claim. Simplot has said the Manufacturing ...

NEW Federal Government funding is yet to be put on the table to help save Tasmania's last vegetable processing factory. After five months of uncertainty, Simplot Australia announced yesterday that its ...