Treasury Stock

Spectris plc

                          Transfer of Treasury Shares                          

Spectris plc announces that on 16 March 2010, the following ordinary shares
were transferred from treasury stock for the purposes of employee share option
allotments under the Spectris 1996 Executive Share Plan and the Spectris
Performance Share Plan:

3,000 shares at 498.5 pence per share (1996 scheme)

2,227 shares at 5 pence per share (PSP)

Following the above transfer, the total number of Spectris plc ordinary shares
in issue (excluding the total of 9,311,929 ordinary shares now held in
treasury) is 115,693,194.

Enquiries:

Spectris plc

Robert Martin

Deputy Company Secretary

01784 470 470