C&R Group’s history began in 1986, then operating as Barclays Advisory & Registrars Services (BARS) as an in-house department of the Barclays Bank of Kenya, to offer share registry services to the banks’ shareholders, after its listing in Nairobi Securities Exchange the same year. In 1991, BARS was incorporated to offer similar services commercially to other listed companies and grew to become the largest Shares Registrar in Kenya. During a business review in 2006, the bank decided to dispose of some of its non-core businesses and BARS was sold as an on-going concern. The company was renamed Custody & Registrars Services Ltd and remains the market leader in shares registrar’s services, enjoying a majority market share of all listed companies trading at the Nairobi Securities Exchange.

With presence in Kenya and Uganda, C&R has been a success story, and the company is now focused on strategic growth into related Business Process Outsourcing services. In-line with this growth, and to reflect its wider service offering, the company now operates as C&R Group (C&R), with divisions in Share Registry, Document Management Solutions, and Business Processing Outsourcing. The divisions under the group umbrella are: