Director/PDMR Shareholding

Spectris plc ("the Company")                          

                          Director/PDMR Shareholding                           

This notification is made in accordance with DTR 3.1.4(1)(a).

On 21 May 2013, awards granted on 8 March 2010 under the Spectris Performance
Share Plan to a director and person discharging managerial responsibilities
were exercised.  The Company was informed by the individual below of the
transaction on 21 May 2013. The awards were granted in the form of nominal cost
options with an exercise price of 5 pence per share.  The awards became
exercisable on 8 March 2013 for a period of 7 years.

  Name      Total    Number   Number of     Number of    Price per    Total    
          number of    of       shares        shares       share     holding   
           shares    shares  disposed to     disposed    received   following  
          exercised retained satisfy the  otherwise than    on     notification
                                option    to satisfy the disposal              
                               exercise       option        (p)                
                              price and   exercise price                       
                                 tax         and tax                           
                             liabilities   liabilities                         
                                                                               
    J      62,817    33,140     29,677         Nil       2114.6216   195,423   
O'Higgins                                                                      


Name of contact and telephone number for queries:

Robert Martin
Deputy Company Secretary
01784 470 470

For and on behalf of Spectris plc

Date: 22 May 2013