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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa has hired Blue Clover—a versatile, On and Off-Line Branding TM firm based in San Antonio with offices in Dallas—to coordinate its marketing communications plan including a website, branding/identity development and fundraising for special projects the Diocese will be launching in the coming months.

“We feel we are truly blessed to be selected by the Catholic Diocese of Tulsa to help them with some very important initiatives, not only because it’s a great opportunity for Blue Clover, but also because of the spiritual knowledge and grace we will gain as a partner in this project,” said José B. Sena, president, CEO and founding partner, Blue Clover. “We are privileged to establish a partnership with this Diocese, and look to a long mutually-beneficial initiative.”

Carl Thompson, a partner in Blue Clover, added “The greatest thing about this opportunity is that we are literally going to be called on to provide all of our branding services both on and off-line. This is always very exciting for us. The fact that we are a truly a multi-cultural marketing firm with Hispanic ownership was also very important to the Diocese.”

The first project is already underway and will be announced later this year. It will include a multi-media branding campaign targeting faithful Catholics nationwide.

BLUE CLOVER: San Antonio-based Blue Clover was established in 2003 by marketing experts and partners Sena, Juan Barrera (Executive Creative Director), and Chris Gilbert (Finance Director). The growing staff now includes a fourth partner, Thompson, Vice President of Corporate Strategy, and 14 full-time creative, technology and management professionals with extensive traditional and multicultural marketing, public relations, media buys, strategic planning, and web-based communication experience from throughout the world. Within the past two years, the firm has opened offices in Mississippi and Dallas, TX.

This innovative talent and relentless drive has distinguished Blue Clover as an award-winning firm, including a place in PRINT Magazine’s 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; the San Antonio Business Journal’s prestigious “40 Under 40” award for Sena; and 2008 and 2009 Association for Women in Communications Proliner Awards for national Public Relations campaigns.

Blue Clover’s past and present client list boasts more than 120 local and national clients, including Physicians Health Choice (a physician-owned company, PHC is a Medicare Advantage organization contracted by Medicare and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas); Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI) (an Alaska Native company with $637 million in assets with ventures in real estate, oil field support, government contracting and Alaska tourism to name a few); Hotels & Preference (a network of privately owned properties with more than 120 four- and five-star hotels and resorts throughout the world); a website and online marketing strategy for IBC Bank (Laredo-based bank with $12.1 billion in assets); a website design for San Antonio Spurs (four-time National Basketball Association champions); Time Warner Cable (second-largest cable operator in the U.S.); a website design project for Clear Channel Radio (owns and operates more than 1,200 radio stations in the United States); Bank of San Antonio (locally owned bank with $142 million in assets and services that include commercial banking, private client services, real estate financing, treasury management and personal banking); MISYS (an application software and services company that provides innovative, integrated solutions and services for the banking, treasury and capital markets and health care industries); Furr’s (there are more than 54 Furr's Family Dining and Furr's Fresh Buffet locations, in a half-dozen western and southern states); Terramark (leading Houston-based commercial and residential real estate development and home building, including Espada community in south San Antonio); San Antonio Economic Development Foundation; TBG Partners (largest landscape architects and planning firm in Texas); Arquitectonica (international architecture, interior design and planning firm); Yantis Company ($100 million construction company; listed as one of the “Top 50 Private Companies” in San Antonio); Cross & Company (San Antonio-based commercial real estate company with more than 45 properties totaling approximately 4.2 million sq. ft.); Waggoner Engineering, Inc. (serves public agencies and private corporations across the southeastern U.S. discovering innovative infrastructure solutions); JH & H Architects (Mississippi architecture, planning, and interior design firm with more than four decades of service and history); and USAA (largest private insurance and banking company in the nation).

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