Treasury Stock

Spectris plc


Transfer of Treasury Shares


Spectris plc announces that on 26th April 2012, the following ordinary shares
were transferred from treasury stock for the purposes of employee share option
allotments under the Spectris Performance Share Plan:


2,595 shares at 5 pence per share


Following the above transfer, the total number of Spectris plc ordinary shares
in issue (excluding the total of 7,799,301 ordinary shares now held in
treasury) is 117,205,822.


Enquiries:

Spectris plc

Robert Martin

Deputy Company Secretary

01784 470 470