Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
27 March 2003

Share Repurchase

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 850,000 of its ordinary shares on 27 March 2003 at a price of
1167.83p per share.

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