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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