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Marketers for J.L. Halsey's Lyris Technologies, EmailLabs and ClickTracks Brands Named as Finalists in 2007 American Business Awards

WILMINGTON, Del.- J.L. Halsey (OTCBB:LYRI.OB), a leading provider of marketing technology solutions, announced today that marketing teams for the company's Lyris Technologies and EmailLabs brands have been selected as finalists in the 5th Annual Stevie® Awards' "Best Marketing Department" category. At the same time, Michael Stebbins, vice president of marketing for its ClickTracks brand, was named a finalist in the "Best Marketing Executive" category.

The recognition represents confirmation of the depth and strength of the marketing teams at each of the brands - a strength J.L. Halsey will leverage as the organization consolidates its operations and prepares to launch an integrated marketing technology platform later this year.

"The American Business Awards serve as a kind of 'peer review' of best practices across the range of U.S. businesses and industries," said Luis Rivera, CEO, J.L. Halsey. "It's especially gratifying for us, as a technology company committed to delivering powerful, effective tools to marketers, that our own marketing talent has been recognized in this prestigious forum."

Hailed as "the business world's own Oscars®" (New York Post, April 27, 2005), the American Business Awards are the only national, all-encompassing awards program honoring great performances in business.

Stevie Award winners will be announced during the annual gala on Monday, June 11 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. More than 700 executives from across the U.S. are expected to attend. The ceremonies, hosted by Larry Wilmore of TV's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, will be videocast on the Internet and broadcast on radio.

Members of the Awards' Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and their staffs will select Stevie Award winners this week from among Finalists. Finalists were chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April through early May.

About J.L. Halsey

J.L. Halsey (OTCBB:LYRI.OB - News) is a leading eMarketing company that provides technology solutions for marketers at mid-size businesses. Halsey has more than 10,000 clients. Its wholly owned subsidiaries -- Lyris Technologies, EmailLabs, ClickTracks and Hot Banana -- provide a suite of best-of-breed tools for managing email marketing campaigns end-to-end, publishing and managing Web site content, creating landing pages, and optimizing sites based on sophisticated, yet easy-to-use Web analytics. Clients include Nokia, Adobe, PalmSource, Johns Hopkins University and Jupitermedia. For more information on the company and its subsidiaries and brands please visit www.lyrisinc.com, www.lyris.com, www.emaillabs.com, www.clicktracks.com, www.hotbanana.com and www.sparklist.com.

About The Stevie Awards

Hailed as "the business world's own Oscars," Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, The Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Selling Power Sales Excellence Awards. Honoring companies of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.

Contact:

J.L. Halsey
Loren T. McDonald
Chief Marketing Officer
650-388-3542
lmcdonald@lyris.com

About EmailLabs
EmailLabs is a leading provider of high-performance email marketing solutions to agencies, publishers and marketing departments of middle-market and Global 2000 companies. The EmailLabs email marketing platform is provided as an ASP (Web-based) service, and is easily integrated with a company's Web site, sales force automation and CRM technologies through EmailLabs' application programming interface (API). For the fourth consecutive year, EmailLabs has been recognized by ASPnews.com as one of the Top 50 ASPs worldwide and as a Top 25 Service Provider for the Software-as-a Service (SaaS) and Business Service Provider category. The company provides email marketing solutions to more than 550 companies, including Nokia, Agilent, PalmSource and Jupitermedia. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., EmailLabs was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Lyris, Inc. (OTCBB:JLHY). For more information, visit www.EmailLabs.com.