Treasury Stock

Spectris plc

                          Transfer of Treasury Shares                          


Spectris plc announces that on 22nd February 2012, 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:


401 shares at 765.5 per share


Following the above transfer, the total number of Spectris plc ordinary shares
in issue (excluding the total of 8,628,928 ordinary shares now held in
treasury) is 116,376,195.




Enquiries:

Spectris plc
Robert Martin
Deputy Company Secretary
01784 470 470