GKN plc

                          Transfer of Treasury Shares

GKN plc (the `Company') announces that on 17 January 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:

19,312 ordinary shares at 134.6p per share

Following the above transfer of treasury shares, the Company holds 20,539,469
ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue
(excluding treasury shares) is 1,639,990,390.