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
7 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Growing of flowers · Aalst · since 2006
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since 2005
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Event catering · Buggenhout · since 1984
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Antwerpen · since 1993
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Freight transport by road · Buggenhout · since 1999
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Growing of flowers · since 1990
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Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · Lebbeke · since 2009
Names that resemble it 28 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Development of residential building projects · Middelkerke · since 2022
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Warehousing and storage · since 2023
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Retail sale of clothing and accessories for women, men, children and babies (general range) · Mechelen · since 1986
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Certified accountants and tax accountants · Yvoir · since 2000
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Business and other management consultancy · Antwerpen · since 2003
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Cafés and bars · Ukkel · since 2007
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Urban planning and landscape architecture · Cerfontaine · since 2025
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Nutrition and dietetics services · since 2021
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Other social work without accommodation · since 2022
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Freight transport by road · Keerbergen · since 2006
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Other professional, scientific and technical activities · Oud-Turnhout · since 2023
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Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · Alveringem · since 2025
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Business and other management consultancy · since 2026
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since 1990
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Office administrative and support services · since 2023
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since 2023
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Fribourg 1701 · since 1995
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Sports and recreation education · since 2025
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since 2023
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Development of residential building projects · Bierbeek · since 2001
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Vertoning van films · Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe · since 2017
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Abbreviation of Cadre d'action sociale et de solidarité intégrale · Oudergem · since 2023
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Buying and selling of own real estate · Mechelen · since 2011
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since 1986
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since 1993
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2020
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2006
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Retail sale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, excluding motor fuels · since 2021