Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
12 June 2003


                              GlaxoSmithKline PLC

GlaxoSmithKline PLC announces that, in accordance with the authority granted by
shareholders at the Annual General meeting on 19th May 2003, it purchased for
cancellation  800,000 of its Ordinary 25 pence shares on Thursday 12th June 2003
at a price of  1247.281 pence per share.


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