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EmailLabs Adds More Than 150 New Clients in 2005

Acquisition by J.L. Halsey and No. 83 on the Prestigious Inc. 500 List Among Key Milestones

MENLO PARK, Calif. (Feb. 8, 2006) - EmailLabs (www.emaillabs.com), the leader in high-performance email marketing technology and a subsidiary of J.L. Halsey (OTCBB:LYRI.OB), today announced key milestones for 2005 including the addition of several new industry-leading clients, continued awards recognition and the acquisition by J.L. Halsey.

In 2005, EmailLabs added 167 new clients to its roster bringing its total number of clients to more than 450. Prominent client companies included Olympus America, Inc., Life Fitness, Trek Bicycle Corporation, Steve Madden and Gulfstream. In Q4 2005, EmailLabs added 36 new clients including Kikucall, Inc., ShoeMall.com, Public Interactive, GTSI, Corp., Timbuk2 Designs, TheaterXtreme Entertainment Group, Inc and Bradford Technologies, Inc.

    Additional key milestones for 2005 include:

    --  Uptilt (dba EmailLabs) was acquired by J.L. Halsey
        Corporation, making Halsey the largest publicly-held company
        focused solely on email marketing.

    --  Expanded staff with the addition of 17 new employees and
        moving to larger offices in Menlo Park, Calif.

    --  Released Version 4.0 of its email marketing application with
        new features that include Web analytics and deliverability
        monitoring integration, a dynamic content wizard, workflow
        task management and a new interface.

    --  Recognition from prestigious awards including:

        --  Number 83 on Inc. 500 list of Fastest Growing Private
            Companies

        --  Top 10 ESP as rated by Jupiter Research

        --  11th Fastest Growing Private Company in San Francisco
            Business Times

        --  14th Fastest Growing Private Company in the Silicon
            Valley/San Jose Business Journal

        --  ClickZ.com Marketing Excellence Awards including the
            winner for the Intevation Report voted "Best B2B
            E-Newsletter" and finalist for "Best Deliverability
            Product/Service"

        --  Steve Award: Best Marketing Executive, Loren McDonald

"2005 was a remarkable year for EmailLabs. We've continued with very consistent revenue growth, released an innovative new version of our application, taken big steps forward in servicing a variety of clients, and most importantly we've seamlessly joined the J.L. Halsey corporate family," said Jim Herbold, general manager and vice president of sales at EmailLabs. "Our key strategies for 2006 are all focused on innovation and execution geared toward delivering increasing value to clients and shareholders alike."

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.