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Compared with the KBO register · free

Type the name you want to use. You see at once whether an active company already has the same or a similar name, and whether it works in your sector.

“Brose, Pascal”

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.

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Same or very similar names

3 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • Sole trader same name
    Nutrition and dietetics services · since 2025
  • Sole trader very similar
    Nursing and midwifery · since 2019
  • BROSE very similar
    Name of an establishment of BROSE GENT · Vervaardiging van andere delen en toebehoren voor motorvoertuigen · Gent · since 2002
Names that resemble it 32 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Sole trader similar
    Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · since 2014
  • Sole trader similar
    Landscape service activities · since 2016
  • Sole trader similar
    Landscape service activities · since 2016
  • Sole trader similar
    Mixed farming · since 1999
  • Sole trader similar
    Retail sale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · since 1987
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1991
  • Sole trader similar
    Landscape service activities · since 1997
  • Sole trader similar
    General electrical installation work · since 2009
  • Sole trader similar
    Other professional, scientific and technical activities · since 2024
  • Sole trader similar
    Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · since 1987
  • Sole trader similar
    Photography, excluding press photography · since 2016
  • Sole trader similar
    Full-service restaurants · since 1993
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1998
  • Sole trader similar
    Nursing and midwifery · since 2006
  • Sole trader similar
    Non-specialised wholesale trade · since 2007
  • Sole trader similar
    Agents specialised in the wholesale of other particular products · since 1988
  • Sole trader similar
    Wholesale of clothing, excluding workwear and underwear · since 1997
  • Sole trader similar
    Materials recovery from waste · since 1985
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2001
  • Sole trader similar
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1987
  • Sole trader similar
    Urban planning and landscape architecture · since 2020
  • Sole trader similar
    Other support activities for arts and performing arts · since 2021
  • Sole trader similar
    Driving schools for cars and motorcycles · since 2022
  • Sole trader similar
    Other retail sale of new goods · since 1998
  • Sole trader similar
    Mixed farming · since 2012
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2010
  • Sole trader similar
    Agents specialised in the wholesale of other particular products · since 2014
  • Sole trader similar
    Other support activities for arts and performing arts · since 2017
  • Sole trader similar
    Nutrition and dietetics services · since 2021
  • Sole trader similar
    Physiotherapy · since 1987
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2003

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. A name can be free in the register and still be protected as a trademark. Trademarks are searched in the 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.

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