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
6 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Vervaardiging van verf, vernis ed, drukinkt en mastiek · Diest · since 1994
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Design of textile patterns, clothing, jewellery, furniture and decorative items · Herentals · since 2006
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Advertising agencies · Rixensart · since 1995
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Graphic design and visual communication · since 2010
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2013
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Anderlecht · since 1978
Names that resemble it 32 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Buying and selling of own real estate · Kortrijk · since 2001
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Graphic design and visual communication · Nazareth-De Pinte · since 2026
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Pre-press and pre-media services · Brussel · since 1990
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Graphic design and visual communication · since 2015
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Activiteiten van industriële designers · since 2004
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Pre-press and pre-media services · Jette · since 2006
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Retail sale of newspapers and periodicals · since 1986
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Pre-press and pre-media services · Marche-en-Famenne · since 2023
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Advertising agencies · since 1991
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Graphic design and visual communication · since 2026
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Combined facilities support activities · since 2015
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Pre-press and pre-media services · since 2016
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Activities of building architects · since 1999
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2010
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Advertising agencies · Soignies · since 2008
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Abbreviation of WIM PROOST - PRO GRAPHIC · Other printing · Beerse · since 1984
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Pre-press and pre-media services · since 1987
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Other information technology and computer services · since 2015
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Media representation · since 1996
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Other printing · Wavre · since 2004
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Graphic design and visual communication · Yvoir · since 2023
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Drukken van dagbladen · Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont · since 1994
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Other printing · since 2019
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Pre-press and pre-media services · Trooz · since 2015
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Agents specialised in the wholesale of other particular products · since 1997
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Graphic design and visual communication · since 2020
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Pre-press and pre-media services · since 2009
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Pre-press and pre-media services · since 2011
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Pre-press and pre-media services · since 2008
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Etterbeek · since 1974
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Liège · since 1989
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Graphic design and visual communication · Etterbeek · since 2020