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San Antonio, TX – Blue Clover is on the fast-track to success, and now there is proof. On and Off-line Branding™ firm Blue Clover was named one of San Antonio Business Journal’s Fast-Track Growth Companies for the second year in a row, taking the number three spot in the small company category, under $2 million in gross revenue in fiscal 2006. One of 8 winners in the small company category and one of 41 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 Fast Track contest in late spring, sending out a survey to companies for them to provide detailed information about their revenue growth over a three-year period (2004 to 2006). To determine the winners, an outside firm placed qualifying companies in revenue categories: Over $1 billion, Over $100 million/Under $500 million, Over $35 million/Under $100 million, Over $15 million/Under $35 million, Over $2 million/Under $15 million, and Under $2 million.

“We have grown a lot since our inception, and the proof is in the numbers,” said José B. Sena, president and CEO of Blue Clover. “In 2004, our gross revenue was $300,000; in 2005, it was $500,000; and last year, it topped at $1.5 million. This year, our audacious goal is $3 million. We have $2 million to go, and the team is giving 150 percent to get there.”

Blue Clover and 40 other winners will be recognized at the annual Fast Track Awards Luncheon on August 17 at the Oak Hills Country Club.

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 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, 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.