Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
26 February 2002


For immediate release

26 February 2002


GlaxoSmithKline PLC


GSK Share Re- Purchases

GlaxoSmithKline plc announces that, in accordance with the authority granted by
shareholders at the Annual General Meeting on 21 May 2001, it purchased for
cancellation 1,000,000 of its ordinary shares on 26 February 2002 at a price of
1738.41p per share.


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