GKN plc                                    
                          Transfer of Treasury Shares

GKN plc (the `Company') announces that on 22 January 2013the 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:

37,611 ordinary shares at 110.08p per share

Following the above transfer of treasury shares, the Company holds 28,112,990 ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) is 1,632,416,869.

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