Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
17 May 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  1,100,000 of its Ordinary 25 pence shares on Tuesday 17th May 2002
at a price of  1630.27 pence per share.




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