Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
21 February 2002


                              GlaxoSmithKline PLC

GlaxoSmithKline PLC announces that, in accordance with the authority granted by
shareholders at the Annual General meeting on May 2001, it purchased for
cancellation  400,000 of its Ordinary 25 pence shares on Thursday 21 February
2002 at a price of  1748.29 pence per share.


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