Directorate Change

Spectris PLC
04 January 2006





Date:                Embargoed until 7.00am, Wednesday 4 January 2006

Contact:             John Poulter, Chairman
                     Spectris plc             Tel:       [phone]






                                   SPECTRIS PLC

                         APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE


Spectris plc, the precision instrumentation and controls company, announces the
appointment of John O'Higgins as Chief Executive. He will join the company this
month.



John, aged 41 and an Irish citizen, joins from Honeywell Inc, the US aerospace
and technology products multinational. For the past three years, he has been
resident in Shanghai as President of Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions
with 5,000 employees in R&D, manufacturing, and sales and marketing operations
covering the whole of Asia Pacific. From 1991 to 2002 he was based in Brussels
in a series of senior corporate development, strategic planning and general
management roles in the automation and industrial divisions of the company.



His earlier career was with Daimler Benz in Stuttgart. He has an engineering
degree from University College Dublin, a master's degree specialising in control
engineering from Purdue in Indiana and an MBA from INSEAD.



Commenting on the appointment, John Poulter, the Chairman of Spectris, said '
John's background is an excellent fit with Spectris. His educational
qualifications, track record within the instrumentation and controls industry
and business experience in all significant global regions, equip him well to
lead the company and drive its development'.





Copies of this announcement are available from the company's registered office
at

Station Road, Egham, Surrey TW20 9NP, and on the company's website at
www.spectris.com.


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