Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
04 August 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  854,000 of its Ordinary 25 pence shares on Monday 4th  August 2003
at a price of  1168.27 pence per share.


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