Elektron PLC
10 March 2008


For immediate release

                                                                   10 March 2008


                                  Elektron Plc

                         ("Elektron" or the "Company")

                                Share repurchase


Elektron, the AIM quoted components group, announces that on 10 March 2008 the
Company acquired 100,000 ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of the
Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 17p per Ordinary Share through the
market.

Following this transaction, the repurchased Ordinary Shares will be cancelled
from trading on AIM. Accordingly, the reduced issued share capital admitted to
trading to AIM will amount to 86,626,003 Ordinary Shares.

For further information:

Christopher Leigh
Elektron Plc
Tel: 01708 336308

Michael Cornish
Beaumont Cornish Limited
Tel: 0207 628 3396



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