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“ALFFA”

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  • We compare against every name in the KBO register today: the name, the abbreviation and the trade names of enterprises and their establishments. Capitals, accents, punctuation and legal forms (bv, nv, srl, ...) do not count.
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Same or very similar names

2 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • ALFFA same name
    Agents and brokers in banking services · Fontaine-l'Evêque · since 2025
  • Alffar very similar
    Other holiday and short-stay accommodation · Hamme (Vl.) · since 1983
Names that resemble it 40 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Alfa similar
    Detailhandel in baby- en kinderbovenkleding · Tongeren-Borgloon · since 1954
  • Alfa similar
    Abbreviation of Algemene Filmondernemingen Aalst · Schaarbeek · since 1950
  • ALFA similar
    Abbreviation of Aide Liégeoise aux Alcooliques, aux toxicomanes et à leur Famille · Ambulante hulpverlening aan drugs- en alcoholverslaafden · Liège · since 1962
  • A.L.F.A. similar
    Abbreviation of ASSOCIATION LIEGEOISE DE FOOTBALL AMATEUR · Crisnée · since 1978
  • ALFA similar
    Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Tongeren-Borgloon · since 1981
  • ALFA similar
    Blankenberge · since 1984
  • ALFA similar
    Vervaardiging van overige geconfectioneerde artikelen van textiel, muv kleding · Mechelen · since 1984
  • ALFA similar
    Leuven · since 1985
  • ALFA similar
    Pre-press and pre-media services · Temse · since 1989
  • ALFA similar
    Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers · Duffel · since 1990
  • ALFA similar
    Activities of holding companies · Waasmunster · since 1991
  • ALFA similar
    Wholesale of machine tools · Zoutleeuw · since 1991
  • A L F A similar
    Non-specialised wholesale trade · Sint-Truiden · since 1998
  • ALFA similar
    Abbreviation of ALFA-TRAINING · Brugge · since 1999
  • Retail sale of newspapers and periodicals · since 1990
  • ALFA similar
    Full-service restaurants · Roeselare · since 2013
  • Retail sale of prescription glasses, lenses and sunglasses · since 1998
  • Wholesale of information and communication equipment · since 1993
  • Alfa similar
    Abbreviation of Alfa Archeologie · Leuven · since 2017
  • Full-service restaurants
  • Alfa similar
    Property management for co-owned buildings (syndics) · Beerse · since 2019
  • Retail sale of second-hand clothing · since 2020
  • ALFA similar
    Vermogensbeheer · Asse · since 2020
  • ALFA similar
    Other activities auxiliary to financial services, excluding insurance and pension funding · Sint-Katelijne-Waver · since 2022
  • AL.F.A. similar
    Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · Havelange · since 2022
  • ALFA similar
    since 2011
  • Alfa similar
    Name of an establishment of APVE · Wholesale of electrical household appliances and audio-video equipment · Sint-Niklaas · since 2012
  • Full-service restaurants · since 1978
  • ALFA similar
    Other activities auxiliary to financial services, excluding insurance and pension funding · Arendonk · since 2015
  • Artisanal bread and fresh pastry making · since 2025
  • ALFALFA similar
    Full-service restaurants · Leuven · since 2020
  • ALF similar
    Abbreviation of Ateliers Lardinois et fils · Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · Chaudfontaine · since 1969
  • A.L.F. similar
    Abbreviation of FKDM · Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Ukkel · since 2000
  • Alf similar
    Name of an establishment of Lorenzo Management · Business and other management consultancy · Hooglede · since 2020
  • ALF similar
    Vermogensbeheer · Kapellen · since 2020
  • ALBALFA similar
    Gent · since 2023
  • L.F.F.A. similar
    Abbreviation of Ligue Francophone de Football Américain · Amay · since 2003
  • Alfa similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Sint-Niklaas · since 1964
  • ALFA similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Keerbergen · since 1991
  • ALFALFA similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Ukkel · since 1989

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