Name check
Is your company name already in the register? Type the name you want to use. You see at once whether an active company in the KBO register already has the same or a similar name, and whether it works in your sector. Trademarks and domain names are checked separately.
An active company already has this name
The name is not unique in the register. In another sector the risk of confusion is smaller, but customers and search engines do not always make that distinction.
Also pick your activity to see whether a similar name exists in your own sector.
What this check does and does not say
- 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.
- This is not a trademark search and not legal advice on using the name. A name that is not in the register can still be protected as a trademark. Trademarks are searched in the official registers of the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP, boip.int) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO, euipo.europa.eu).
- A domain name or a social media handle is also separate from the register.
Same or very similar names
1 registered enterprise with a name easily confused with yours.
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Joinery installation · Oosterzele · since 2008
Names that resemble it 32 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Retail sale of women's outerwear · Oudenaarde · since 1996
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Joinery installation · since 2017
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Full-service restaurants · Charleroi · since 2024
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Retail sale of souvenirs and religious articles · Balen · since 1977
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Name of an establishment of ANDRE et Compagnie · Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Liège · since 1978
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Plumbing work · Chaudfontaine · since 1988
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Ukkel · since 1989
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Name of an establishment of ANDRE Frères · Retail sale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · Liège · since 1996
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Activities of bailiffs · Antwerpen · since 2001
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Full-service restaurants · Gent · since 2013
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Name of an establishment of AND · Demolition · Willebroek · since 2014
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Name of an establishment of Simone et Madeleine · Cafés and bars · Gent · since 2017
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Abbreviation of ANDRE’ STREETFURNITURE · Vervaardiging van andere meubelen, n.e.g. · Nieuwerkerken (Limb.) · since 2023
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Ondersteunende diensten in verband met de bosbouw · since 2006
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Landscape service activities · since 2024
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Retail sale of household textiles and bedding · Manage · since 1984
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Other building finishing work · since 2018
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Wholesale of timber · Menen · since 2018
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Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · since 2020
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Renting and operating of own or leased non-residential real estate, excluding land · since 2020
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Other business support services · since 2023
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Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · Antwerpen · since 2010
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Repair and maintenance of other personal and household goods · Ardooie · since 2011
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Detailhandel in breigarens, handwerken en fournituren · since 1981
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Other specialised construction activities · Etterbeek · since 2006
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Demolition · Asse · since 2006
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Other specialised construction activities · Brasschaat · since 2007
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since 1977
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Nursing and midwifery · Tubize · since 2025
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Other support activities for arts and performing arts · since 2016
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Postdiensten in het kader van de universele dienstverplichting · since 2010
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Sint-Jans-Molenbeek · since 1960