Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
25 March 2002




                              GlaxoSmithKline PLC


GlaxoSmithKline PLC announces that, in accordance with the authority granted by
shareholders at the Annual General meeting on May 2001, it purchased for
cancellation  3,000,000 of its Ordinary 25 pence shares on Monday 25th  2002 at
a price of  1658.8018  pence per share.








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