Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
19 February 2002


                              GlaxoSmithKline PLC


GlaxoSmithKline PLC announces that, in accordance with the authority granted by
shareholders at the Annual General meeting on May 2001, it purchased for
cancellation  600,000 of its Ordinary 25 pence shares on Tuesday 19 February
2002 at a price of  1743.7136 pence per share.



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