Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
18 December 2002

For immediate release

18 December 2002

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

GSK Share Repurchases

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 865,000 of its ordinary shares on 18 December 2002 at a price of
1150.23p per share.

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