Purchase of Own Securities

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
26 March 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  2,580,000 of its Ordinary 25 pence shares on Tuesday 26th March
2002 at a price of  1643.8294 pence per share.


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