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EmailLabs Named to the Inc. 500 List of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Email Marketing Provider Ranked No. 83 on the 2005 Inc. 500 With Three-Year Sales Growth of 1,006.2%

MENLO PARK, Calif. (Nov. 1, 2005) - EmailLabs, the leader in high-performance email marketing technology and a subsidiary of J.L. Halsey (OTCBB:LYRI.OB), today announced it was named to Inc. magazine's 24th annual Inc. 500 ranking of fastest-growing private companies in the country. EmailLabs ranked No. 83 on the list, with a three-year sales growth rate of 1,006.2 percent. The Inc. 500 can be found in the November issue, which appears on newsstands November 1.

"EmailLabs is honored to be included on the prestigious Inc. 500 list," said Jim Herbold, general manager and vice president of sales at EmailLabs. "Our inclusion on the list further validates our business model and the market's adoption of both the hosted software model and email marketing as the premier marketing channel used to communicate to customers."

David Burt, chief executive officer at Halsey, which recently acquired EmailLabs, said, "EmailLabs' inclusion on the Inc. 500 list affirms Halsey's decision to acquire it. The company has achieved both high profitability and market leadership, in addition to its incredible revenue growth rate."

The Inc. 500 ranks privately held companies according to year-over-year sales growth from 2001 to 2004. With approximately 75 percent of all new job creation in the U.S. coming from entrepreneurial businesses, the Inc. 500 opens a window into the companies and industries that are driving the economy forward. Over the years, the Inc. 500 has identified the next generation of world-class companies, with Microsoft, Stonyfield Farms, Timberland, Oracle, The Princeton Review, Morningstar, Jamba Juice, Gateway, E*Trade, Intuit, and Domino's Pizza all appearing on the list before they became industry powerhouses.

To be eligible for this year's Inc. 500, companies had to be U.S.-based, independent and privately held through their fiscal year 2004, and have had at least $500,000 in net sales in the base year of 2001. In addition, their 2004 sales had to exceed 2003 sales. Companies are ranked on cumulative three-year sales growth from 2001 to 2004. Inc. verifies all information using tax forms and audited financial statements from certified public accountants and by conducting interviews with company officials.

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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.