Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
19 February 2003

For immediate release

19 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 870,000 of its ordinary shares on 19 February 2003 at a price of
1149.46p per share.

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