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
11 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Groothandel in bloemen en planten · Oudenaarde · since 2009
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Wholesale of machine tools · Blégny · since 1987
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Retail sale of pets, pet food and pet supplies · Sint-Katelijne-Waver · since 1988
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Wholesale of construction materials, general range · Heist-op-den-Berg · since 1992
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Herzele · since 1993
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Construction of roads and motorways · since 2008
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Raising of dairy cattle · Kalmthout · since 2012
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Antwerpen · since 1968
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Name of an establishment of Deccon Industries · Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · Aarschot · since 2015
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Specialist medical practice · Leuven · since 2018
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Joinery installation · Sint-Truiden · since 2020
Names that resemble it 19 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · since 2000
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Abbreviation of deCheckers vzw · Literary creation · Antwerpen · since 2021
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General medical practice · Turnhout · since 2021
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Performing arts by independent artists · since 2011
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Site preparation · Geel · since 1970
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Name of an establishment of BECOE · Retail sale of watches and jewellery · Roeselare · since 1989
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Wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products · Beringen · since 1991
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Other education · Laakdal · since 1999
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Landscape service activities · Kapellen · since 2001
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Other building finishing work · since 1997
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Name of OSR · General construction of residential buildings · Voeren · since 2010
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Leopoldsburg · since 1994
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Screed work · Brecht · since 2019
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Abbreviation of COMPAGNIE DE CNOCKE · Activities of holding companies · Beersel · since 2009
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Veterinary services · Sint-Truiden · since 2023
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Wholesale of wines and spirits · Merelbeke-Melle · since 2024
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Landscape service activities · since 2025
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Day spas, saunas and steam baths · since 2026
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Antwerpen · since 1996