Case Study: Coca‑Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated achieves secure, high‑performance work‑from‑home for thousands with Zscaler

How Coca-Cola Consolidated Empowered Employees to Work From Anywhere with Zscaler™

Coca-Cola Consolidated, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in the U.S. with more than 110 locations and 17,000 teammates, needed to rapidly shift several thousand office workers to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic while preserving productivity and security. The company relied heavily on Office 365 and Teams for collaboration, but traditional VPNs introduced latency and scaling challenges that threatened user experience, communications, and IT infrastructure costs.

Coca-Cola Consolidated deployed Zscaler Internet Access and Zscaler Client Connector to route Microsoft traffic directly, remove VPN bottlenecks, and enforce cloud security (Cloud Firewall, CASB, DLP, sandboxing) from a single checkpost. The rollout was fast and seamless across diverse devices, improved Office 365/Teams performance, lowered infrastructure costs, and gave leaders real-time dashboard metrics to confirm continued productivity and secure remote operations.

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated

Rory Regan

Director of Infrastructure of Information Technology Services