A former secretary at Coca-Cola has been sentenced to eight years in prison for plotting to steal the company's secrets and sell them to rival Pepsi.
Joya Williams, 42, was sentenced in Atlanta - Coca Cola's home - after being found guilty in February.
Then the court heard she stole confidential documents and samples of new products, passing them to two men to sell to Pepsi for at least $1.5m.
Co-conspirator Ibrahim Dimson received a jail term of five years.
Both he and another man, Edmund Duhaney, had pleaded guilty.
Fake sale
"This is the kind of offence that cannot be tolerated in our society," District Judge J Owen Forrester said when sentencing Williams, according to the Associated Press (AP)
The three were charged last July with stealing product samples and confidential documents from Coca-Cola and trying to sell them to PepsiCo's Pepsi unit.
After the offer was made, PepsiCo contacted Coca-Cola and co-operated with FBI officials who held undercover meetings with Mr Dimson.
Investigators arranged a fake sale of the material for $1.5m (£800,000) and caught Ms Williams on camera putting papers and samples in her bag, the prosecution said.
She was an administrative assistant for Coke's global brand director at the firm's Atlanta headquarters.
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It has more to do with the trade secret than actual coca-cola. Coke has spent millions of dollars to legally protect their formula...so much to the point that we'll find the cure for AIDS before we find out how to make coke.
I know the KFC "11-herbs" recipe is another famous trade secret which is heavily protected.
Anyways, the secret is what drives Coke's business. If it were made public, they would go broke in no time. But since there is no replica of coke, you just gotta buy "the real thing". (or is that the old pepsi slogan?)
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I bet Coke paid this guy to do this and go to jail for publicity.
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Sunny wrote:
Anyways, the secret is what drives Coke's business. If it were made public, they would go broke in no time.
no way, they're selling a brand. people wouldn't just buy some other cola because it has coke's recipe.
anyway, the secret ingredient is cough syrup! nothing but plain, ordinary, over-the-counter children's cough syrup!
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Sunny wrote:
vacatetheword wrote:
anyway, the secret ingredient is cough syrup! nothing but plain, ordinary, over-the-counter children's cough syrup!
$100 says the secret ingredient is cat poo.
i'll take that bet.
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punkdavid wrote:
B wrote:
I bet Coke paid this guy to do this and go to jail for publicity.
The Coca-Cola Company planned and executed 9/11.
Its a she, and don't be stupid, the twin towers had Pepsi written all over it. Now the Kennedy assassination, that could only be coke.
Are you trying to imply that I didn't read the whole article??
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vacatetheword wrote:
anyway, the secret ingredient is cough syrup! nothing but plain, ordinary, over-the-counter children's cough syrup!
that's the first thing I though of when I read this
they should just do a commercial with Aerosmith in it
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Jammer91 wrote:
Coke is better than Pepsi anyway
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