Elektron PLC
23 March 2006





For immediate release

                                                                23 March 2006



                                    Elektron Plc

                         ("Elektron" or the "Company")

                                Share repurchase


Elektron, the AIM quoted components group, announces that the Company acquired
364,500 ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary
Shares") at a price of 17.3p per Ordinary Share from the AF Bulgin Group Pension
Scheme through the market. The AF Bulgin Group Pension Scheme is currently being
wound up and following this transaction will no longer have an interest in the
Company.


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 78,358,602 Ordinary Shares.



For further information:


Christopher Leigh
Elektron Plc
Tel: 020 8477 9308


Michael Cornish
Beaumont Cornish Limited
Tel: 0207 628 3396



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