Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
21 June 2002



                              GlaxoSmithKline PLC


GlaxoSmithKline PLC announces that, in accordance with the authority granted by
shareholders at the Annual General meeting on 20th May 2002, it purchased for
cancellation  3,550,000 of its Ordinary 25 pence shares on Friday 21st  June
2002 at a price of  1392.72 pence per share.



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