Monrovia Business Report: Local Firm Partners with International Automaker

This week a local company signed a major deal with an international automaker and and a Monrovia consulting firm weighed in on Walmart. Read on for more.

• Huntington Drive tech firm signed a big deal with Mitsubishi to provide its electric vehicle chargers to the company's customers.
• A "tech based firm" will be repurposing the Dogwood's Market, which . We'll have more on this later.
• The Wildcat Newspaper will hold a fundraiser at California Pizza Kitchen in Arcadia on Tuesday. Given the , it will be interesting to see if the paper promotes this drive through official district channels.
• A Monrovia consulting firm, Spezzano Consulting, was quoted in a produce trade publication as saying that Walmart has "re-established itself as an 'everyday low price' leader of national brands."
• Local biotech firm Xencor will partner with a German firm to produce "biosuperior monoclonal antibodies."
• Monrovia Patch will be launching a new, improved version of our feature that will expand the types of businesses featured. The poll, which will run Mondays, will now allow readers to vote on the best types of many different businesses. Be on the lookout for "Monrovia's Best Bar" on Monday. As usual, the winner will receive a certificate they can display in their establishment.