PricewaterhouseCoopers was born following a merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand. The Firm's history is much longer, however, and can be traced back to the mid-nineteenth century.

The following events marked breakthrough points in the history of both companies:

1849 Samuel Lowell Price opens his London office

1854 William Cooper his London office

1865 Price, Holyland and Waterhouse become partners

1874 The name changes to Price, Waterhouse & Co.

1898 Robert H. Montgomery, William M. Lybrand, Adam A. Ross Jr. and his brother T. Edward Ross set up Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery

1957 Cooper Brothers & Co (WB), McDonald, Currie and Co (Canada) and Lybrand, Ross Bros & Montgomery (USA) merge to form Coopers & Lybrand

1982 Global Price Waterhouse network of firms is established

1990 In many countries, Coopers & Lybrand merge with Deloitte Haskins & Sells

1998 Global Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand merger -PricewaterhouseCoopers is formed

2002 PwC Consulting is made part of IBM

2003 Separation of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)

The following dates are of particular importance to the history of PricewaterhouseCoopers Poland:

1990 Coopers & Lybrand Warsaw office opens, soon followed by a Price Waterhouse Warsaw office

1994 Coopers & Lybrand begin operations in Cracow

1996 Coopers & Lybrand open their Gdańsk office. Business Process Outsourcing Price Waterhouse opens in Cracow, accompanied by the self-standing Price Waterhouse TLS

1997 Coopers & Lybrand office opens in Poznań

1998 Global Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand merger -PricewaterhouseCoopers is formed

1998 PricewaterhouseCoopers offices open in Cracow, Gdańsk, and Poznań

1999 PwC Cracow Business Process Outsourcing office opens

2000 PricewaterhouseCoopers opens in Wrocław

2003 PricewaterhouseCoopers moves to a new building in Warsaw

2004 George Johnstone replaces Peter Driscoll on the position of PwC Poland Chairman

2005 Separation of associated law firm Wierzbowski i Wspolnicy.