Our history & milestones

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PwC was created by the merger of two firms - Price Waterhouse & Coopers and Lybrand - each with historical roots going back some 150 years.

1849	Samuel Lowell Price sets up a business in London
1854	William Cooper establishes his own practice in London, which seven years later becomes Coopers Brothers
1865	Price, Hoyland and Waterhouse join forces in partnership
1874	Name changes to Price, Waterhouse & Co.
1898	Robert H. Montgomery, William M. Lybrand, Adam A. Ross Jr. and his brother T. Edward Ross form Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery.
1921	Both Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand open an office in Brussels.
1957	Coopers Brothers & Co. (UK), McDonald, Currie and Co. (Canada) and Lybrand, Ross Bros & Montgomery (US) merge to form Coopers & Lybrand.
1982	Price Waterhouse world firm formed.
1990	Coopers & Lybrand and Deloitte Haskins & Sells merged in a number of countries around the world, including in Belgium.
1998	Worldwide merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand created PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
2002	Sale of PwC Consulting to IBM.
2010	PricewaterhouseCoopers becomes PwC, along with launching a new logo and brand identity.

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