RNS Number : 2213Y

Barclays PLC

05 September 2025

FORM 8.5 (EPT/NON-RI)
PUBLIC OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN
EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITHOUT RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY ("RI") STATUS
(OR WHERE RI STATUS IS NOT APPLICABLE)
Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")
1.				KEY INFORMATION
(a)	Name of exempt principal trader:				BARCLAYS CAPITAL SECURITIES LTD
(b)	Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose				SPECTRIS PLC
	relevant securities this form relates:
(c)	Name of the party to the offer with which exempt				SPECTRIS PLC
	principal trader is connected
(d)	Date position held/dealing undertaken:				04 Sep 2025
(e)	In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal				NO
	trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?
2.				POSITIONS OF THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
(a)	Interests and short positions in the relevant securities of the offeror or offeree
	to which the disclosure relates following the dealing (if any)
Class of relevant security:				5p ordinary
				Interests		Short Positions
				Number	(%)	Number	(%)
(1)	Relevant securities owned
	and/or controlled:			2,663,552	2.68%	709,636	0.71%
(2)	Cash-settled derivatives:
	and/or controlled:			499,661	0.50%	2,417,591	2.43%
(3)	Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
	and agreements to purchase/sell:			0	0.00%	0	0.00%
	TOTAL:			3,163,213	3.18%	3,127,227	3.15%
(b)	Rights to subscribe for new securities (including directors and other executive
	options)
Class of relevant security in relation to
which subscription right exists
Details, including nature of the rights
concerned and relevant percentages:
3.				DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
(a)	Purchases and sales
Class of relevant		Purchase/sale		Total number of		Highest price per unit	Lowest price per unit
security				securities		paid/received	paid/received
5p ordinary		Purchase		186,784		40.8431  GBP	40.7200  GBP
5p ordinary		Sale		215,985		40.8600  GBP	40.7200  GBP
(b)	Cash-settled derivative transactions
Class of		Product		Nature of dealing		Number of	Price per
relevant		description				reference	unit
security						securities
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		28,370	40.7200  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		60	40.7290  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		4,500	40.7297  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		22	40.7336  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		198	40.7386  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		16	40.7400  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		450	40.7450  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,530	40.7517  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		72	40.7596  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		287	40.7597  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,267	40.7675  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,822	40.7685  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		13,061	40.7710  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,894	40.7740  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		4,413	40.7747  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		175	40.7793  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		811	40.7801  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		95	40.7867  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		242	40.7940  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		6	40.8000  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,222	40.8009  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		3	40.8133  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2	40.8400  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,907	40.7200  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,104	40.7203  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		5,073	40.7400  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		3,331	40.7595  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,128	40.7644  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		608	40.7739  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,355	40.7747  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		162	40.7765  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		173	40.7787  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		107	40.7803  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		68	40.7805  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		769	40.7853  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		11,003	40.7973  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		128	40.8094  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		656	40.8106  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		250	40.8300  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Long		17,718	40.7404  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Long		10,689	40.7544  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Long		1,626	40.7563  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Long		31,453	40.7200  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Long		148	40.7800  GBP
(c)	Stock-settled derivative transactions (including options)
(i)	Writing, selling, purchasing or varying
Class	Product	Writing,	Number	Exercise	Type	Expiry	Option
of	description	purchasing,	of	price		date	money
relevant		selling,	securities	per unit			paid/
security		varying etc	to which				received
			option				per unit
			relates
(ii)	Exercising
Class of relevant		Product description		Exercising/ exercised against		Number of	Exercise price per
security						securities	unit
(d)	Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)
Class of relevant		Nature of Dealings		Details		Price per unit (if
security						applicable)
4.				OTHER INFORMATION
(a)	Indemnity and other dealings arrangements
Details of any indemnity or option arrangement, or any agreement or understanding,
formal or informal, relating to relevant securities which may be an inducement to deal
or refrain from dealing entered into by the exempt principal trader making the disclosure and any party
to the offer or any person acting in concert with a party to the offer:
NONE
(b)	Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives
Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, formal or informal, between
the exempt principal trader making the disclosure and any other person relating to:
(i)   the voting rights of any relevant securities under any option; or
(ii)   the voting rights of future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which
any derivative is referenced:
NONE
(c)	Attachments
Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached?				NO
Date of disclosure:				05 Sep 2025
Contact name:				Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number:				020 3134 7213

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