Treasury Stock

GKN plc Transfer of Treasury Shares GKN plc (the `Company') announces that on 20 August 2014 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: 8,489 ordinary shares at 134.6p per share Following the above transfer of treasury shares, the Company holds 19,122,238ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue(excluding treasury shares) is 1,641,407,621.