Lyris Technologies Opens Austin Office to Fuel Expansion; Microsoft Ensemble Studios Added to List of Growing Customer Base

EMERYVILLE, Calif.—June 26, 2006—Lyris® Technologies, subsidiary of J.L. Halsey (OTCBB:JLHY) and leading provider of email marketing solutions, today announced the opening of an Austin, Texas office to support the company's continued growth in the region. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Lyris has additional offices in Denver, Colorado and in London. The opening of the new office reflects the overall expansion of Lyris' operations, fueled by the company's continued revenue growth and worldwide customer base of over 5,000. As a new customer, Microsoft Ensemble Studios joins Lyris' growing client list in the Southwestern United States.

"We're excited about the expansion of our business in Texas and the southwest," states Luis Rivera, CEO of Lyris Technologies, Inc. "We look forward to working with Microsoft Ensemble and to future business deals with other fast-growing companies in the area and to making a positive impact on marketers throughout the region who use our sophisticated email marketing tools."

About Lyris Technologies

Founded in 1994, Lyris Technologies provides leading-edge email marketing software solutions to over 5,000 customers worldwide. Our suite of products, led by our flagship product ListManager, offers powerful tools for opt-in email marketing, list management, database segmentation, and deliverability assurance. Lyris offers both hosted and software versions for publishing email campaigns, newsletters, and discussion groups. Our commitment to permission-based marketing, outstanding deliverability rates, and our extremely positive ISP relations make Lyris' solutions among the best-selling email marketing applications on the market today. Headquartered in Emeryville, California, Lyris Technologies, is a subsidiary of the J.L. Halsey Corporation (OTCBB:JLHY) along with Sparklist and EmailLabs. For more information, please visit http://www.lyris.com.