In this Oct. 14, 2019 photo a truck with the Coca-Cola logo, behind left, maneuvers in a parking lot at a bottling plant in Needham, Mass. The Coca-Cola Co. said Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, it’s laying off 2,200 workers, or ... more > By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times - Friday, April 23, 2021 A federal jury in Tennessee convicted a former Coca-Cola worker in a conspiracy to commit economic espionage benefiting China stemming from her work at the soda giant. Xiaorong You, a U.S. citizen who worked as Coca-Cola’s principal engineer for global research between 2012 and 2017, was intent on setting up a company in China with stolen trade secrets, the Justice Department said.