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.
“BOPRE”
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
8 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Retail sale of pharmaceutical products · Aalst · since 1986
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Name of an establishment of BOPRO_Project Managment · Real estate agency activities · Gent · since 1984
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Raising of horses and other equines · since 2018
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Sint-Laureins · since 2021
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Other professional, scientific and technical activities · Paris · since 2018
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Other business support services · Lier · since 2017
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Other business support services · Heist-op-den-Berg · since 2022
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Performing arts by independent artists · since 2022
Names that resemble it 11 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Boom · since 2024
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Retail sale of prescription glasses, lenses and sunglasses · Liège · since 1983
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Abbreviation of Brussels Ouderenplatform · Retail sale of beverages, general range · Brussel · since 1987
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Abbreviation of TADOM · Wholesale of beverages, general range · Charleroi · since 2015
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Abbreviation of Belgium Old Panthers · Activiteiten van overige balsportclubs · Chaudfontaine · since 2022
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Abbreviation of Belgian Offshore Platform · Activities of business and employers' organisations · Brussel · since 2011
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Agents in the wholesale of textiles, clothing, fur, footwear and leather goods · since 2017
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Mixed farming · since 1992
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Name of an establishment of BONIMMO · Logging · Libin · since 2006
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Finishing of textiles · Wielsbeke · since 2006
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Abbreviation of Bocklandt en Partners, Marketing en Reklame · Gent · since 1977