Treasury Stock

GKN plc Transfer of Treasury Shares GKN plc (the `Company') announces that on 19 December 2014 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 2004: 24,739 ordinary shares at 199.58p per ordinary share Following the above transfer of treasury shares, the Company holds 17,799,678ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue(excluding treasury shares) is 1,660,529,859.