Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
05 March 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  930,000 of its Ordinary 25 pence shares on Wednesday 5th March
2003 at a price of  1068.87 pence per share.



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