Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
21 August 2002

For immediate release

21 August 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 1,490,000 of its ordinary shares on 21 August 2002 at a price of
1340.35p per share.

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