Treasury Shares

Spectris plc

                          Transfer of Treasury Shares                          

Spectris plc announces that on 1 September 2009, the following ordinary shares
have been transferred from treasury stock for the purposes of employee share
option allotments under the Spectris 1999 Executive Share Option Scheme:

500 shares at 589 pence per share

Following the above transfer, the total number of Spectris plc ordinary shares
in issue (excluding the total of 9,592,569 ordinary shares now held in
treasury) is 115,412,554.

Enquiries:

Spectris plc

Robert Martin

Deputy Company Secretary

01784 470 470


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