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EmailLabs Wins Stevie Award in 4th Annual American Business Awards

Lena Waters, Director of Marketing, Selected as Best Marketer

MENLO PARK, Calif. (June 19, 2006)--Lena Waters, Director of Marketing at EmailLabs (www.emaillabs.com), the leader in high-performance email marketing technology and a subsidiary of J.L. Halsey (OTCBB:LYRI.OB), was selected as the winner for "Best Marketer" in the 4th annual American Business Awards. This is EmailLabs second Stevie Award, as Loren McDonald, Vice President of Marketing, won for "Best Marketing Executive" in 2005.

More than 1,500 entries from companies of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration in more than 40 categories including, Best Overall Company, Best Executive, and Best Corporate Social Responsibility Program. Members of the Awards' Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and their staffs selected Stevie winners from among the Finalists. Finalists were chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in earlier this year.

Ms. Waters has more than eight years experience in business-to-business marketing with a focus on interactive and online marketing. As Director of Marketing at EmailLabs, she is responsible for managing demand and lead generation for the sales team, as well as synchronizing messaging with the sales and product teams to promote new product developments. She has established new print, online, search and email advertising programs across several vertical markets, supported the sales team through managing collateral and Web site content creation, and implemented a Key Performance Indicator reporting matrix to measure and improve the effectiveness of all lead generation and branding programs. As a direct result of her efforts, sales leads in 2005 increased 153% over 2004.

"We are pleased to have Lena recognized for her outstanding achievements by the American Business Awards," said Jim Herbold, general manager at EmailLabs. "This Stevie Award is a testament to the hard work and dedication of all EmailLabs employees and our commitment to email marketing leadership."

Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word "crowned," the awards were presented during ceremonies at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. The ceremonies were hosted by CNN business news anchor Ali Velshi, videocast live on the Internet, and broadcast nationwide on radio.

Details about The American Business Awards and the list of Finalists and Stevie Award winners are available at www.stevieawards.com/aba.

About The Stevie Awards
Hailed as "the business world's own Oscars" by the New York Post (April 27, 2005), Stevie Awards are conferred in three programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, and The Stevie Awards for Women Entrepreneurs. 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.

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.