Treasury Stock

Spectris plc

                          Transfer of Treasury Shares                          


Spectris plc announces that on 21 January 2013, the following ordinary shares
were transferred from treasury stock for the purposes of employee share option
allotments under the Spectris Performance Share Plan:

20,012 shares at 5 pence per share


Following the above transfer, the total number of Spectris plc ordinary shares
in issue (excluding the total of 7,591,489 ordinary shares now held in
treasury) is 117,413,634.


Enquiries:

Spectris plc
Robert Martin
Deputy Company Secretary
01784 470 470