Treasury Stock

GKN PLC - Treasury Stock

PR Newswire

London, May 8

GKN plc (the `Company') announces that on 8 May 2013 the following ordinaryshares of 10p each were transferred out of treasury to satisfy the exercise ofoptions by participants of the:

GKN Executive Share Option Scheme 2004:

176,524 ordinary shares at 110.08p per share

Following the above transfer of treasury shares, the Company holds 26,768,251ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue(excluding treasury shares) is 1,633,761,608.