Notice of Results

AstraZeneca PLC
23 October 2002



AstraZeneca Third Quarter and Nine Months results 2002

Tomorrow, Thursday, 24 October 2002 AstraZeneca will be releasing its third
quarter and nine months results for 2002 at 11:00 BST.

There will be an analyst teleconference at 13:30BST, 08:30 EST, for which the
numbers are in the UK: 0800 028 5334, for Europe [phone] and for the
US: [phone]. These numbers, as well as details of the replay facility
available through 3 November 2002, are on the Investor Relations part of the
AstraZeneca website at www.astrazeneca.com.


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