Treasury Stock

GKN PLC - Treasury Stock

PR Newswire

London, December 14

GKN plc (the `Company') announces that on 14 December 2012 the followingordinary shares of 10p each were transferred out of treasury to satisfy theexercise of options by participants of the:

GKN Executive Share Option Scheme 2001:

8,719 ordinary shares at 110.04p per share

GKN Executive Share Option Scheme 2004:

171,693 ordinary shares at 110.08p per share

Following the above transfer of treasury shares, the Company holds 28,786,215ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue(excluding treasury shares) is 1,631,743,644.