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EmailLabs Recognized as One of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Both the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal

Company Ranked 11th in the San Francisco Bay Area and 14th in the San Jose Silicon Valley

MENLO PARK, Calif. (Oct. 31, 2005) - Uptilt, dba EmailLabs (www.emaillabs.com), the leader in high-performance email marketing technology and a subsidiary of J.L. Halsey (OTCBB:LYRI.OB), today announced it has been named to both the San Francisco Business Times "Fast 100" and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Silicon Valley."

With a three-year growth rate of 287 percent, EmailLabs was named the 11th fastest growing company in the San Francisco Bay Area and 14th fastest growing company in the San Jose Silicon Valley according to data published in October by the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, respectively. Recently the company launched the latest version of EmailLabs 4.0 with key features that include Web analytics and delivery reporting integrations, a dynamic content wizard and workflow task management system.

EmailLabs was recently acquired by J.L. Halsey. The acquisition makes Halsey the largest publicly-held company focused solely on email marketing.

"We are honored to be recognized for the second year as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley," said Jim Herbold, general manager and vice president of sales at EmailLabs. "This recognition attributes to the hard work and dedication of the EmailLabs team, our commitment to our overall client satisfaction and continued success with delivering best-of-breed products to the market."

"It's awards and recognitions such as these that show why we chose to add EmailLabs to our portfolio of email marketing solution companies," said Luis Rivera, chief operating officer at Halsey. "EmailLabs is one of the premier brands to middle market and Global 2000 companies and remains committed to its record of product innovation and superior client service."

The San Francisco Business Times Fast 100 and Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies awards are leading components of the Book of Lists program, owned by the American City Business Journals, Inc. The lists rank both Bay Area and Silicon Valley-based private companies by revenue growth for the three-year period 2002 to 2004.

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.