GKN plc

                          Transfer of Treasury Shares

GKN plc (the `Company') announces that on 19 December 2014 the following
ordinary shares of 10p each were transferred out of treasury to satisfy the
exercise 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 17,799,678
ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue
(excluding treasury shares) is 1,660,529,859.