Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
24 February 2003




                              GlaxoSmithKline PLC


GlaxoSmithKline PLC announces that, in accordance with the authority granted by
shareholders at the Annual General meeting on 20th May 2002, it purchased for
cancellation  870,000 of its Ordinary 25 pence shares on Monday 24th February
2003 at a price of  1146.99 pence per share.



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