Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
18 February 2003

For immediate release

18 February 2003

GlaxoSmithKline PLC



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 860,000 of its ordinary shares on 18 February 2003 at a price of
1161.71p per share.

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