Treasury Stock

GKN plc Transfer of Treasury Shares GKN plc (the `Company') announces that on 19 December 2013 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: 1,762 ordinary shares at 134.6p per share Following the above transfer of treasury shares, the Company holds 20,569,032ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue(excluding treasury shares) is 1,639,960,827.