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San Antonio, TX – Blue Clover employees are happy to work here, and they loudly bragged about it. On and Off-line Branding™ firm Blue Clover was named one of San Antonio Business Journal’s Best Places to Work, taking the number three spot in the small company category. One of 16 winners in the small company category and one of 39 overall winners, 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 starts the Best Places to Work contest in early spring, sending out an invitation for employees to nominate their companies by answering a series of questions about working conditions, compensation, recognition, perks and other benefits. A minimum of 10 employees completed the survey by mid-April for the company to qualify.

“Not much else tops being honored by your own employees,” said José B. Sena, president and CEO of Blue Clover. “We pride ourselves on being high touch with our clients, as well internally, so it is rewarding to know that our employees appreciate it and believe in it. We are blessed with a dynamic team who seems to feel just as lucky to be with us.”

Partner and general manager Ryan Kelly accepted the award on behalf of the firm at the annual Best Places to Work Awards Luncheon on June 6 at the Oak Hills Country Club, with all the employees in attendance. The small company category included businesses with 10 to 50 employees. The medium company category included those with 51 to 100 employees, and the large company category covered 100-plus employees.

Blue Clover uniquely mixes digital branding through award-winning websites, e-commerce, SEO and content manageable systems with traditional tools including name and logo development, public relations, direct mail and special events planning. The San Antonio-based firm was established in 2003 by marketing experts and partners José B. Sena, Juan Barrera and Chris Gilbert. The staff now includes two new partners, 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.

This innovative talent and relentless drive has distinguished Blue Clover as an award-winning firm, including San Antonio Business Journal’s Fast Track list; 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, the company’s CEO and president. The firm recently opened a new office in downtown Atlanta, Ga., to serve its growing client base in the southeast.

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); Coastal Properties (specializes in real estate in the beaches of South Walton, Destin, Rosemary Beach, Grayton Beach, Seacrest Beach, Blue Mountain Beach, Fort Walton Beach, Pensacola, Navarre and Panama City Beach—recently bought by Prudential Florida WCI Realty); a website design project for Clear Channel Radio (owns and operates more than 1,200 radio stations in the United States); Cross & Company; Falcon International Bank ($665 million institution; named 2006 Top Earner by Independent Community Bankers of America); Terramark (leading Houston-based commercial and residential real estate development and home building, including Espada community near proposed Texas A&M campus in south San Antonio); Perico’s Mexican Cuisine; Time Warner Cable; Goodwill Industries; Southwest Mental Health Center; San Antonio Economic Development Foundation; TBG Partners (largest landscape architects and planning firm in Texas); Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Associates of South Texas; Seguin Economic Development Corporation; Galo Properties (one of the largest single-family lot developers in south central Texas); Workforce Solutions (a workforce development network for employers and job seekers in the Rio Grande Valley); Oberthur Gaming Technologies (one of the world’s leading providers of lottery scratch off games; now known as MDI); Yantis Company ($100 million construction company; listed as one of the “Top 50 Private Companies” in San Antonio); The University of Texas at San Antonio; and USAA.

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