Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
09 December 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  840,000 of its Ordinary 25 pence shares on Monday 9th December
2002 at a price of  1171.68 pence per share.




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