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Firm jumps from #6 to #5 in San Antonio Business Journal Book of Lists

San Antonio, TX – Blue Clover is climbing the local design ladder. The On and Off-line Branding™ firm is now ranked #5 in San Antonio Business Journal’s Largest San Antonio Graphic Design Firms category in its Book of Lists, leaving its #6 ranking from the previous year. One of 23 local graphic design firms ranked, Blue Clover is a pioneering design firm that focuses on merging traditional and interactive disciplines to maximize the brand relationship between a company and its customers.

The San Antonio Business Journal produces a list weekly. To determine the ranking, Kim Hernandez, SABJ research director, compiles information through questionnaires and other methods. With six local graphic designers, a local art director, 100 local accounts and 10 regional accounts, Blue Clover is a growing design force in the San Antonio area.

“With our additional staff and opening a new division in the southeast, 2007 was a year of significant growth for Blue Clover,” said José B. Sena, president and CEO of Blue Clover. “The previous year we had 40 local accounts, so we are extending our reach with each year that passes. This is just the beginning for us.”

Blue Clover is also ranked in the Largest San Antonio Web Site Development Firms and Largest San Antonio Public Relations Firms list.

BLUE CLOVER: San Antonio-based Blue Clover was established in 2003 by marketing experts and partners Sena, Juan Barrera and Chris Gilbert. The growing staff now includes five partners, with Ryan Kelly and Jody Tidwell, and 17 full-time creative, technology and management professionals with extensive traditional and multicultural marketing, public relations and web-based communication experience from throughout the world. In July 2007, the firm opened a new office in Atlanta to serve its southeast customers, hiring Tidwell and Jason Lewis as president and vice president of the southeast division.

This innovative talent and relentless drive has distinguished Blue Clover as an award-winning firm, including a place in PRINT Magazine’s 2006 Regional Design Annual (the most comprehensive competition annual in the design profession), San Antonio Business Journal’s Best Places to Work, San Antonio Business Journal’s Fast Track list for two years in a row; the Emerging Business Award from the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; and the San Antonio Business Journal’s prestigious “40 Under 40” award for Sena.

Blue Clover’s past and present client list boasts more than 120 active local and national clients, including Arquitectonica (international architecture, interior design and planning firm); a website design project for Clear Channel Radio (owns and operates more than 1,200 radio stations in the United States); Jefferson Bank (the third largest San Antonio-based bank with $610 million in assets and 11 retail offices across north and central San Antonio, Boerne and New Braunfels); Terramark (leading Houston-based commercial and residential real estate development and home building, including Espada community in south San Antonio); Time Warner Cable; San Antonio Economic Development Foundation; TBG Partners (largest landscape architects and planning firm in Texas); Seguin Economic Development Corporation; Galo Properties (one of the largest single-family lot developers in south central Texas); Yantis Company ($100 million construction company; listed as one of the “Top 50 Private Companies” in San Antonio); and USAA.

More information on Blue Clover is available at (210) 223-5409, www.blueclover.com or info@blueclover.com.