Treasury Stock

Spectris plc


                          Transfer of Treasury Shares                          


Spectris plc announces that on 6th 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:


1,003 shares at 765.5 per share


Following the above transfer, the total number of Spectris plc ordinary shares
in issue (excluding the total of 8,631,081 ordinary shares now held in
treasury) is 116,374,042.


Enquiries:


Spectris plc

Robert Martin

Deputy Company Secretary

01784 470 470