Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
28 February 2003


                              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  3,280,000 of its Ordinary 25 pence shares on Friday 28th February
2003 at a price of  1085.2 pence per share.





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