Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
07 August 2003













                              GlaxoSmithKline PLC







GlaxoSmithKline PLC announces that, in accordance with the authority granted by
shareholders at the Annual General meeting on 19th May 2003, it purchased for
cancellation 500,000 of its Ordinary 25 pence shares on Thursday 7th August 2003
at a price of  1161.32 pence per share.




















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