Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
28 May 2002

For immediate release

28 May 2002

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

GSK Share Re- Purchases

GlaxoSmithKline plc announces that, in accordance with the authority granted by
shareholders at the Annual General Meeting on 20 May 2002, it purchased for
cancellation 1,350,000 of its ordinary shares on 28 May 2002 at a price of
1477.91p per share.

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