Kekst CNC

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Global strategic communications firm, with a London office at 40 Chancery Lane

Kekst CNC

Type Strategic communications firm
Registration ID 04131534 (UK company: CNC-Communications & Network Consulting Limited)
Headquarters New York and Munich; London office at 40 Chancery Lane, WC2A 1JA
Location London
Website www.kekstcnc.com

Kekst CNC is a global strategic communications firm. Its legal information page gives two principal entities: Kekst and Company, Incorporated, doing business as Kekst CNC, of 1675 Broadway, New York; and CNC Communications & Network Consulting AG, of Leopoldstraße 10, Munich, registered at Amtsgericht München under HRB 143897.[1] Its London office is at 40 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1JA.[2] Robbie Gibb, a member of the BBC Board, joined the firm as a senior advisor in October 2019.[3][4]

London office and UK company

The firm's London page lists the office at 40 Chancery Lane, a telephone number and the email london@kekstcnc.com.[2] The legal information page names the New York corporation and the Munich AG, and gives the AG's supervisory board chair as Demet Ikiler and its board as Bernhard Meising and Barbara Rauscher. It does not give a UK company number for the London office.[1]

There is no UK company registered under the name Kekst or Kekst CNC. The UK company used for the firm is CNC-Communications & Network Consulting Limited (company number 04131534), an active private limited company incorporated on 28 December 2000. It was previously named Capital Communications M S & L Limited, then Capital MS&L Limited, then Capital MSL Limited, and took its present name on 5 January 2015. Its registered office is 1st Floor, 2 Television Centre, London W12 7FR, not the Chancery Lane trading address, and its nature of business is given as advertising agencies. Its latest accounts were made up to 31 December 2025.[5]

Companies House records Richard Campbell, appointed 2 May 2001, and Bernhard Otmar Meising, appointed 18 November 2019, among the directors of 04131534.[6] Campbell is the person quoted by name in Kekst CNC's 2 October 2019 announcement of Gibb's appointment.[3] Meising appears, as Bernhard Meising, on the firm's legal information page as a member of the board of the Munich AG.[1]

The persons with significant control record for 04131534 shows MSLGROUP London Limited (company number 02107327) as the owner of 75% or more of the shares, notified on 6 April 2016. That company, formerly Manning, Selvage & Lee Limited, has the same Television Centre registered office. Demet Ikiler, named on Kekst CNC's legal page as chairwoman of the Munich AG's supervisory board, is recorded as a director of MSLGROUP London Limited, appointed 11 April 2023.[7][8][9] MSLGROUP London Limited is in turn recorded as 75% or more owned by PG Media Services Limited (00926566), whose own person with significant control is MMS UK Holdings Limited (04982095).[10][11][12]

A second UK company, CNC - Communications & Network Consulting (UK) Limited (04321609), also had a Television Centre registered office. It was dissolved on 20 August 2019.[13]

Robbie Gibb

On 2 October 2019 Kekst CNC announced that Sir Robbie Gibb, who had been Director of Communications at 10 Downing Street and to the prime minister, Theresa May, for the previous two years, was joining "as a senior advisor to the group". The firm said he would "provide counsel to boards and management teams both in the UK and internationally across a range of business-critical issues". Richard Campbell, quoted in the announcement, described him as "a seasoned political advisor, broadcast journalist and communications professional".[3]

The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments published its advice on 18 December 2019. It recorded that Gibb had left his No. 10 role in July 2019, that he had sought the committee's advice about establishing an independent consultancy and about commissions including a role with Kekst CNC, that "the letter containing the Committee's consideration and the conditions imposed on the appointment was sent in September 2019", and that "the appointment was taken up the following month".[4]

The BBC's biography of Gibb as a Board member lists him as "a senior communications adviser at Kekst CNC".[14] Gibb has sat on the BBC Board as the member for England since May 2021. His role at the corporation, including at the time of the Oxford Street Chanukah bus incident reporting, is set out on his page.

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Notes

  1. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kekst CNC, "London", accessed 10 November 2026.
  2. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kekst CNC, "Former Downing Street Aide, Sir Robbie Gibb, Joins As a Senior Advisor", 2 October 2019.
  3. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, "Gibb, Robbie - Director of Communications, No.10 - ACOBA advice", GOV.UK, 18 December 2019.
  4. ↑ Companies House, "CNC-COMMUNICATIONS & NETWORK CONSULTING LIMITED, company number 04131534", accessed 10 November 2026.
  5. ↑ Companies House, "CNC-COMMUNICATIONS & NETWORK CONSULTING LIMITED: officers", accessed 10 November 2026.
  6. ↑ Companies House, "CNC-COMMUNICATIONS & NETWORK CONSULTING LIMITED: persons with significant control", accessed 10 November 2026.
  7. ↑ Companies House, "MSLGROUP LONDON LIMITED, company number 02107327", accessed 10 November 2026.
  8. ↑ Companies House, "MSLGROUP LONDON LIMITED: officers", accessed 10 November 2026.
  9. ↑ Companies House, "MSLGROUP LONDON LIMITED: persons with significant control", accessed 10 November 2026.
  10. ↑ Companies House, "PG MEDIA SERVICES LIMITED, company number 00926566", accessed 10 November 2026.
  11. ↑ Companies House, "PG MEDIA SERVICES LIMITED: persons with significant control", accessed 10 November 2026.
  12. ↑ Companies House, "CNC - COMMUNICATIONS & NETWORK CONSULTING (UK) LIMITED, company number 04321609", accessed 10 November 2026.
  13. ↑ BBC, "Sir Robbie Gibb", About the BBC, accessed 6 November 2026.
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