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Is your company name still free?

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.

“Chardon, 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

12 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • Sole trader same name
    Other business support services · since 2014
  • Sole trader same name
    Retail sale of beverages, general range · since 1990
  • Sole trader very similar
    Landscape service activities · since 2017
  • Sole trader very similar
    Installation of electric heating, air conditioning, cooling and ventilation · since 2023
  • Sole trader very similar
    Hairdressing and barber services · since 1996
  • Sole trader very similar
    Mixed farming · since 1991
  • Sole trader very similar
    Public relations and communication consultancy · since 2012
  • Sole trader very similar
    since 1938
  • Sole trader very similar
    Business and other management consultancy · since 2022
  • Sole trader very similar
    since 2004
  • CHARDON very similar
    Gerpinnes · since 1982
  • CHARDON very similar
    Real estate agency activities · Namur · since 1995
Names that resemble it 14 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Sole trader similar
    Holiday cottages, homes and apartments · since 2022
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1995
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1986
  • Sole trader similar
    Hairdressing and barber services · since 2021
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1974
  • Sole trader similar
    Joinery installation · since 2005
  • Sole trader similar
    Joinery installation · since 1994
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1992
  • Sole trader similar
    General maintenance and repair of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2010
  • Sole trader similar
    Joinery installation · since 2003
  • Sole trader similar
    Operation of fairground attractions · since 1986
  • Sole trader similar
    Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · since 1994
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1976
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2024

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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