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.
“CARTOON”
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
16 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Full-service restaurants · Lebbeke · since 1992
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Other publishing activities, excluding software publishing · since 2023
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Antwerpen · since 1976
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Name of an establishment of WHITE VALE INDUSTRIAL · Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe · since 1997
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 1992
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Literary creation · since 2018
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Full-service restaurants · Menen · since 2007
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Full-service restaurants
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Full-service restaurants · since 1986
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Activities of other sports clubs · Mortsel · since 2019
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Video and film production, excluding cinema and television films · Holsbeek · since 1999
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Retail sale of household textiles and bedding
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Name of an establishment of IMMO CATORA · Buying and selling of own real estate · Grimbergen · since 2009
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PRAAG 6 · since 2011
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Advertising agencies · Beyne-Heusay · since 1994
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Name of an establishment of HAGELANDSE LOTENHANDEL · Non-specialised wholesale trade · since 1990
Names that resemble it 26 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Manufacture of other wood products · Wielsbeke · since 2013
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Activiteiten op het gebied van psychotherapie · Oostende · since 2018
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Other non-specialised retail sale · Elsene · since 1997
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since 1998
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Retail sale of automotive fuel · Ronse · since 1987
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Office administrative and support services · Knokke-Heist · since 2021
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Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2022
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Abbreviation of CENTRE AGREE DE RECYCLAGE ET DE TRI · Materials recovery from waste · Jodoigne · since 1999
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Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel) · since 2000
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Leuven · since 2000
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Other building finishing work · Turnhout · since 2012
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Day spas, saunas and steam baths · since 2017
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Performing arts by independent artists · Rebecq · since 2006
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Performing arts by independent artists · since 2026
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Abbreviation of Société des Cartonnages Belges Cartobel · Anderlecht · since 1968
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Wholesale of other household goods · Nivelles · since 1992
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Menen · since 2015
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Graphic design and visual communication · since 2022
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Gent · since 2023
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Performing arts by independent artists · Brugge · since 2024
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Groothandel in reinigingsmiddelen · Evere · since 1971
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Retail sale of women's outerwear · Turnhout · since 1986
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Abbreviation of CELLULE D'ACCELERATION POUR LA REMISE AU TRAVAIL ET POUR L'EMPLOI · Elsene · since 1986
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Rust- en verzorgingstehuizen (RVT) · Anderlecht · since 1991
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Post-production of films, video and television programmes · Gent · since 2015
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Logistics services · Tremelo · since 2011