Purchase of Own Shares

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
18 February 2004

GlaxoSmithKline plc



GSK Share Repurchase



GlaxoSmithKline plc announces that today, in accordance with the authority
granted by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting on 19 May 2003 , it
purchased for cancellation 2,275,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of
1098.3524p per share.



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