GKN plc

                          Transfer of Treasury Shares

GKN plc (the `Company') announces that the following ordinary shares of 10p
each were transferred out of treasury to satisfy the exercise of options by
participants of the GKN Sustainable Earnings Plan Scheme 2012 on 3 March 2015
and 4 March 2015 respectively:

115,668 ordinary shares of nil cost options

2,792,808 ordinary shares of nil cost options

Following the above transfers of treasury shares, the Company holds 14,430,879
ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue
(excluding treasury shares) is 1,646,098,980.