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                                    GKN plc

                          Transfer of Treasury Shares

GKN plc (the `Company') announces that on 31 March 2015 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:

27,432 ordinary shares at 199.58p per ordinary share

Following the above transfer of treasury shares, the Company holds 13,625,488
ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue
(excluding treasury shares) is 1,646,904,371.