Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
5 March 2002



For immediate release

5 March 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 1,400,000 of its ordinary shares on 5 March 2002 at a price of
1705.08p per share.



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