Treasury Stock

GKN PLC - Treasury Stock

PR Newswire

London, December 20

GKN plc (the `Company') announces that on 20 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:

5,813 ordinary shares at 110.04p per share

Following the above transfer of treasury shares, the Company holds 28,513,179ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue(excluding treasury shares) is 1,632,016,680.