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.
“CARMATMEAT”
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
4 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Wholesale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · Wommelgem · since 2014
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Vermogensbeheer · Schilde · since 2020
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Agents specialised in the wholesale of other particular products · Kortrijk · since 2011
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Activities of holding companies · Gent · since 2007
Names that resemble it 14 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Renting and leasing of cars and light motor vehicles · Oosterzele · since 1994
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Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · since 2022
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Bodywork repair (including spraying and painting) · Genappe · since 2019
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Groothandel in weefsels, stoffen en fournituren · Lede · since 1992
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Name of an establishment of MDware · Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Gent · since 2016
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Other maintenance and repair of motor vehicles · since 2008
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Zottegem · since 2000
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Business and other management consultancy · Merelbeke-Melle · since 2009
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Name of an establishment of CARE MANAGEMENT · Business and other management consultancy · Meise · since 2003
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Sint-Agatha-Berchem · since 2005
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Name of an establishment of AMANIS · Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · Zutendaal · since 2006
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Other activities auxiliary to financial services, excluding insurance and pension funding · Waregem · since 2024
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Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2022
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Development of residential building projects · since 2007