PwC provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to enhance value for their clients. We share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice. PwC was established as a result of the merger of two firms - Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand in 1998. However, history of the company is much longer and traces back to the mid-nineteenth century when Samuel Lowell Price opened his office in London. Nowadays PwC has offices in 158 countries with 180 000 people employed.