Family-owned Kangaroo Brands, Milwaukee, strives for consistent quality and value when it comes to all things pita. Passionate about baking and snack production, Kangaroo uses quality ingredients to provide quality products, including its popular line of light, crunchy pita chips for retail and foodservice. It’s for these and other reasons that Kangaroo is our Snack Manufacturer of the Year.
John and George Kashou grew up eating pita bread. As chief executive officer/president and vice president, respectively, the two brothers own Kangaroo Brands, Inc., Milwaukee, and started out with a small retail bakery in 1979. The brothers wanted to bake “a better pita bread,” and came up with a way to cut pitas open to create “pocket” breads.