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June 30, 2008

Blue Clover to incorporate Verbalocity’s professionalism and enthusiasm

San Antonio, TX – Blue Clover has accepted Verbalocity’s challenge to create its company brand that combines the professionalism of its acclaimed leadership development programs with the energy and enthusiasm clients experience in its workshops.

Blue Clover—a versatile, fast moving On and Off-Line Branding™ firm based in San Antonio— will create a logo, website, stationery and brochure for Verbalocity—a company devoted to enhancing the leadership experiences of its clients by designing, developing and delivering tailored solutions.

These solutions include personal development workshops/seminars, professional speeches and general consultations led by Clint Swindall, CEO and president of Verbalocity. Swindall travels around the world delivering high-content speeches in an entertaining and inspirational style. Verbalocity clients include American Express, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, DaimlerChrysler, KFC, Hallmark and BMW.

“It was very important to us to find a firm with a solid reputation for quality work and great customer service,” Swindall said. “With those as our standards, Blue Clover was the obvious choice.”

“I have personally experienced what Verbalocity offers,” said José B. Sena, president, CEO and founding partner, Blue Clover. “Blue Clover is thrilled to have the opportunity to help with such an amazing program, led by a dynamic individual such as Clint Swindall.”

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 four partners, with Jody Tidwell, and 14 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 new offices in Mississippi and Atlanta to serve its southeast customers, hiring Tidwell as 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 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; and the 2008 Association for Women in Communications Proliner Award.

Blue Clover’s past and present client list boasts more than 120 active local and national clients, including 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 100 four- and five-star hotels and resorts throughout the world); a website and online marketing strategy for IBC Bank (Laredo-based bank with $10.6 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); Jefferson Bank (the third largest San Antonio-based bank with $610 million in assets and 11 retail offices across 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); San Antonio Economic Development Foundation; TBG Partners (largest landscape architects and planning firm in Texas); Galo Properties (one of the largest single-family lot developers in south central 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, www.blueclover.com or info@blueclover.com.