GKN plc                                    

                              Transfer of Treasury Shares                          

    GKN plc (the 'Company') announces that on 22 January 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:

    19,312 ordinary shares at 134.6p per ordinary share

    Following the above transfer of treasury shares, the Company holds 12,137,777
    ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue
    (excluding treasury shares) is 1,713,965,853.