Hints and tips:
...About 80m existing JioPhone users are expected to finish their contracts in the next two years, according to investment bank Jefferies, making them low-hanging fruit for deals enticing them to upgrade....
...Danny Tan joined Ashurst as Asia-Pacific head of investment funds in Singapore after leading the private funds team at Allen & Gledhill....
...Tiger told its investors on Wednesday that it saw his efforts bearing fruit....
...“The low-hanging fruit is largely behind them, but I would imagine they are still trying to find opportunities,” said Mr Sykes....
...“Because the platform is very mature they have run out of low-hanging fruit.” Tencent’s QQ, the Chinese internet company’s original instant messaging platform, has already begun shedding users....
...“Rating agencies need to deeply understand and holistically assess the fruits of our society’s development, and the progress we have made in structural reforms,” Mr Zhang added....
Exclusive talks fail to bear fruit, opening the way for a possible deal with Apollo or Fosun
...Fiat’s share price has risen more than 50 per cent over the past six months, as investors smell a recovery in the European car market, and bet on Mr Marchionne’s latest turnround plan bearing fruit....
...So maybe I’m missing something – tell me if I am – but this seems like low-hanging fruit. Shouldn’t someone grab it?...
...Tesco found that US shoppers like to pick up and touch their fruit and vegetables, something that proved difficult with Fresh & Easy’s pre-packaged produce....
...Fruit and nut case Meanwhile, over in Willy Wonka land, there may also be sweet revenge for Cadbury. The British chocolate maker is facing an unwelcome bid from food giant Kraft....
...Advisers say Coke had no need to buy its fruit anywhere other than China. That has led commentators to speculate on what might have been Beijing’s real motive....
...Ms Huang said China’s fruit and vegetable juice market was worth $10.6bn at the end of last year and is growing at an annual rate of 18 per cent....
...“It gave us a solid slate of films to fill out our line-up, a valuable catalogue we were able to monetise, and a development pipeline that will bear fruit for us for years to come,” the company said....
...“There is no more low-hanging fruit. India has been discovered. We will see more moderate – 20-25 per cent – returns going forward,” the survey quoted respondents as saying....
...There are pubs that sell both high-end whiskies and quart bottles of domestic beer, plenty of ethnic restaurants, including Italian, Thai and Ethiopian, and the popular Parkdale fruit and vegetable market...
...Even groups with an avowed desire to expand abroad like Haier, the white goods maker, have so far focused on picking low-hanging fruit closer to home....
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