Director/PDMR Shareholding

Spectris plc                                  

                   Announcement to the London Stock Exchange                   

This notification is made in accordance with DTR 3.1.4(1)(a) and LR 12.6.4.

On 20 May 2009, awards granted under the Spectris Performance Share Plan
("Plan") to certain directors and persons discharging managerial
responsibilities were exercised, as announced by the Company on 21 May 2009.

A number of individuals (where noted below) sold a proportion of the shares
acquired to fund their tax liabilities. The disposals were made on the London
Stock Exchange.

          Name            Total number of  Number of shares   Price per share 
                         shares exercised   disposed of to      received on   
                                              satisfy tax        disposal     
                                              liabilities                     
                                                                              
     Roger Stephens           14,341             5,986            497.916     
                                                                              
     James Webster            21,960             9,166            497.916     
                                                                              

The above awards were satisfied using treasury shares. In total 36,301 treasury
shares were transferred from the Company's treasury reserves.

Following the above transfer, the total number of Spectris plc ordinary shares
in issue (excluding the total of 9,655,954 ordinary shares now held in
treasury) is 115,349,169.

Name of contact and telephone number for queries:

Robert Martin

Deputy Company Secretary

01784 470 470

For and on behalf of Spectris plc

Date: 27 May 2009