GREATER HARTFORD'S BUSINESS NEWS WWW.HARTFORDBUSINESS.COM VOLUME 25 • NUMBER 47 $3.00 NOVEMBER 20, 2017
HARTFORD
BUSINESS JOURNAL
Business Evaluator
Ed Pratesi has made a career out of
valuing businesses, including his own.
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THE LISTS:
Largest shopping
centers in Connecticut
and Wealthiest ZIP
codes in Greater
Hartford
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Cross-Continent
Connections
Nearly two dozen Israeli startup and
government officials recently visited
Hartford to advance a relationship
between a country and region that
have spent years trying to forge
economic ties.
FOCUS: Retail
As traditional retail faces headwinds,
Westfarms mall's activation marketing
campaigns offer an additional revenue
stream.
Newsmaker
Andrew Sufian, General
Manager, The Shoppes
at Buckland Hills,
Manchester.
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Innovation
Gatekeeper
United Technologies
Corp. is among the
region's biggest
innovators, and much
of its R&D spending
is invested in talent,
ideas and technology
reared in its United
Technologies Research
Center. Get an inside
look at UTRC.
