GKN plc                                    

                              Transfer of Treasury Shares                          

    GKN plc (the 'Company') announces that on 18 August 2016 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:

    54,318 ordinary shares at 113.24p per ordinary share

    Following the above transfer of treasury shares, the Company holds 11,904,597
    ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue
    (excluding treasury shares) is 1,714,199,033.