PROTESTER DRESSED AS CAT DEMONSTRATES AS PHARMACEUTICAL GIANT GSK HOLDS AGM IN LONDON, 2003-05-19 (photo)

A protestor dressed in a cat suit and holding a bowl of cream demonstrates outside the location of pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Smith Kline's annual general meeting in London May 19, 2003. Shareholders of GlaxoSmithKline Plc on Monday voted down a costly executive pay scheme that included a ogolden parachuteo worth up to $36 million for the chief executive, EuropeAEs top drugmaker said. The historic vote, although only advisory, makes GlaxoSmithKline the first British blue-chip company to have shareholdes reject its pay scheme. Critics had slammed the ogolden parachuteo Chief Executive Jean-Pierre Garnier would receive if he lost his job. The vote came during a stormy annual general meeting season in which shareholders of British companies have battled lucrative U.S.-style packages for top executives. REUTERS/Hugo Philpott NMB