SAN ANTONIO, MAY 4, 2005: San Antonio-based Selrico Services was recognized for the third straight year as one of the top 100 U.S. inner city companies in 2004. Selrico was ranked 83rd out of more than 7,500 companies nationwide.

John A. “Rick” Aleman, founder and CEO, joined other honorees in Boston on April 20 and 21 of this year for the Inner City 100 Awards Dinner, known as “the Academy Awards of Entrepreneurship.” “It’s more of a thrill every year,” Aleman said. “It’s a long way – and lots of hard work –to get from a San Antonio barrio to that Boston ballroom. To go there for the third year in a row is a great honor.”

Selrico Services is a life support services contractor providing the basics of living – food, facility operating and maintenance, laundry, waste management, custodial and communications services – to the US military and private companies so that they are free to pursue their primary missions. Selrico has about 1,100 employees working worldwide, 100 of them in San Antonio.

Founded in 1989 as a local, minority-owned food service company, Selrico has its feet firmly planted in San Antonio’s inner city. even as it conducts daily operations in the Middle East and throughout the U.S.

The Inner City 100 spotlights the importance of a robust business sector in creating healthy urban communities.

Rick Aleman, Founder and CEO of Selrico Services Inc. featured in La Opinion.

SAN ANTONIO—Apr. 21, 2004—Selrico Services founder, Rick Aleman, is the feature article in La Opinion, one of Los Angeles’ largest daily news distributors. The article, which was printed in Spanish, focuses on Mr. Aleman’s humble beginnings and later his overwhelming success in dealing with the government and innovative food packaging.

"I am very honored to be featured in La Opinion. I hope that my story can give hope to the many Latinos who wish to start their own business, but feel they can’t,” stated Mr. Aleman.

About Selrico Services Inc.

Selrico Services Inc. is a San Antonio inner-city company that specializes in a full range of services from recycling and waste management to food distribution and building maintenance. The company has built an award-winning reputation for quality, service and dedication. Founded in 1990 by native San Antonian, Rick Aleman, the company now provides close to 600 jobs and has expanded to 25 locations covering six time zones. Selrico's clients range from U.S. military installations to events such as the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Selrico Services Inc. repeats listing on Sixth Annual ICIC-Inc Magazine Inner City 100

San Antonio, Texas, April 7, 2004 - The results of the Sixth Annual ICIC-Inc Magazine Inner City 100 have been announced, and Selrico Services Inc. has once again been recognized as one of the fastest-growing inner-city companies in America as listed by ICIC-Inc. Magazine. Selrico Services and advertising company, Guerra, Deberry, Coody, are the only companies based in San Antonio that were listed.

“San Antonio has so much to be proud of and these two companies are great examples of the surging growth in our small business community,” said Mayor Edward Garza. “Rick Aleman with Selrico Services is a good example of how San Antonio attracted Toyota.”

President and founder, Rick Aleman stated, "I am very honored to be recognized two years in a row by ICIC-Inc Magazine. Selrico still enjoys being a part of the inner city and continues to operate in this vibrant area. The inner city of San Antonio is our home."

The 2004 Inner city winners will convene on April 12-13, 2004, at the Inner City 100 Summit in Boston. The Summit is a two-day event that included seminars for Inner City 100 owners and managers at Harvard Business School, a reception at Fenway Park, and culminates in a gala awards dinner, where more than 1,000 guests are expected.

Winners are based in 59 cities and were selected from a pool of 5,000 companies nominated from 155 cities compared to approximately 4,000 last year and fewer than 300 in 1997 (the first year the award was given). Criteria for the award include having at least 51 percent of operations located in economically distressed urban areas, having sales of at least $150,000 in 1997 and at least $1 million in 2001. Average annual sales for the 100 companies from 1997 to 2001 werein excess of $25 million. Collectively, sales totaled more than $2.5 billion.

Now in its fifth year, the Inner City 100 provides unprecedented original data on fast-growing U.S. inner-city businesses. The average annual growth rate for 2003 Inner City 100 companies/businesses that compete in the service, manufacturing, retail and wholesale distribution sectors was a stunning 647 percent for the five-year period 1997-2001, eclipsing by more than a hundred percentage points the average growth rate of last year's winners.

About Selrico Services Inc.

Selrico Services Inc. is a San Antonio inner-city company that specializes in a full range of services from recycling and waste management to food distribution and building maintenance. The company has built an award-winning reputation for quality, service and dedication. Founded in 1990 by native San Antonian, Rick Aleman, the company now provides close to 600 jobs and has expanded to 25 locations covering six time zones. Selrico's clients range from U.S. military installations to events such as the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City.

About Initiative for a Competitive Inner City
The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) is a national, non-partisan, not-for-profit organization founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter, following several years of pioneering research on inner-city business and economic development. With affiliates in three cities and significant on-the-ground activities in many others, ICIC has rapidly established itself as a national force in inner-city economic development. By identifying the competitive potential of inner cities; strategic location, local market demand, growth opportunities via integration with the regional economy and availability of labor, ICIC aims to build the business case for doing business in America's inner cities. ICIC's mission is to spark new thinking about the business potential of inner cities, thereby creating jobs and wealth for inner-city residents.