Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
21 May 2002


For immediate release

21 May 2002

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

GSK Share Re- Purchases

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 910,000 of its ordinary shares on 21 May 2002 at a price of
1638.13p per share.


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