Directorate Change

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
20 May 2002

              Chairman of the Remuneration & Nominations Committee

The Board of GlaxoSmithKline plc announces that Mr Paul Allaire has been
appointed Chairman of the company's Remuneration & Nominations Committee with
immediate effect. He replaces Mr John Young who, as previously announced, will
retire from the Board at the conclusion of the company's Annual General Meeting
later today.


Mr Paul Allaire was appointed a Non-executive Director of GlaxoSmithKline plc in
May 2000 and had been a Non-executive Director of SmithKline Beecham plc since
1993.






S M Bicknell

Company Secretary




20 May 2002



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