Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
18 September 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  1,650,000 of its Ordinary 25 pence shares on Wednesday 18th 2002
at a price of  1199.83 pence per share.




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