BevBlog: Convicted for Stealing Bad Info to Sell to Pepsi

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Today, a federal jury convicted Joya Williams, a former Coca-Cola secretary, of conspiring to steal trade secrets from world’s largest beverage maker in an effort to sell them to rival Pepsi.

Now, as someone who has sampled all of Cokes products that have come out of Coke over the past couple of years, I’m really curious to know what the secrets were. The secret formula to Gold Peak? The latest flavor to be mixed with Coca-Cola? Or perhaps she was simply trying to sell Pepsi data that would stop them from making similar mistakes?? Seriously, it’s mind boggling…

Read more
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/02/coca.cola.trade.ap/index.html

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  1. 1 On February 3rd, 2007, yesimsofaking said:

    what’s with all the hate thrown at COKE, the boys in blue R not doing anything better, what has come from THEM, exactly nothing, there new stuff is from their buying spree & their marketing using frito lay tie-ins, give me a break, VAULT is better than dew & FULL THROTTLE rocks, in fact FULL THROTTLE is number 4 in barely over a year, also, dr pepper is not pepsi’s, so what have they done??????

    please answer that!!!!!!!!

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