Director/PDMR Shareholding

ELECTROCOMPONENTS PLC (the "Company")

PDMR Dealing

Electrocomponents plc Savings Related Share Option Scheme (the "Scheme")

Exercise of Options

Electrocomponents announces that Simon Boddie (Group Finance Director) yesterday exercised all the options granted to him in June 2010, in accordance with the rules of the Scheme as set out below:

No of Shares Class of shares Option Price

3,085 Ordinary 10p £1.75

Mr Boddie has retained all of these shares.

Following this transaction, Simon Boddie has an interest in a total of 262,729 Shares representing less than 0.1% of the issued share capital of the Company.

This announcement relates to a transaction notified today in accordance with DTR 3.1.2R.

Ian Haslegrave

Company Secretary

3 September 2013

Electrocomponents plc

International Management Centre

8050 Oxford Business Park North

Oxford OX4 2HW

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1865 204000

Fax: +44 (0)1865 207400

www.electrocomponents.com