Treasury Stock

Spectris plc

                          Transfer of Treasury Shares
                          

Spectris plc announces that on 8 December 2011, the following ordinary shares
were transferred from treasury stock for the purposes of employee share option
allotments under the Spectris Savings Related Share Option Scheme:


6,516 shares at 765.5 pence per share


Following the above transfer, the total number of Spectris plc ordinary shares
in issue (excluding the total of 8,658,036 ordinary shares now held in
treasury) is 116,347,087.


Enquiries:

Spectris plc

Robert Martin

Deputy Company Secretary

01784 470 470