Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
06 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 Thursday 6th March 2003
at a price of  1067.99 pence per share.





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