History

Our origins


1849 Samuel Lowell Price sets up in business in London
  
1854   William Cooper establishes his own practice in London, which 7 years later becomes Cooper Brothers
 
1865   Price, Holyland 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
 
1957   Cooper Brothers & Co. (UK), McDonald, Currie and Co. (Canada) and Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery (US) merge to form Coopers & Lybrand
 
1982   Price Waterhouse World Firm forms
 
1990   Schweizerische Revisionsgesellschaft (set up in 1912) merges with Price Waterhouse in Switzerland
 
1991   Schweizerische Treuhandgesellschaft (set up in 1906) merges with Coopers & Lybrand in Switzerland
 
1998   Worldwide merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand to create PricewaterhouseCoopers
 
2002   PricewaterhouseCoopers completes the sale of its management consulting department, PwC Consulting, to IBM
 
2005   PricewaterhouseCoopers sells Actuarial Benefits & Insurance Solutions to Swisscanto
  
2008   Tenth anniversary of the PricewaterhouseCoopers' merger