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.
“De Express”
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
20 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Sint-Truiden · since 2021
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Activities of holding companies · Turnhout · since 2022
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · since 2015
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Name of an establishment of GV · Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Gavere · since 2004
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Other postal and courier activities · Braine-le-Château · since 2007
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Freight transport by road · Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel) · since 1983
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Freight transport by road · since 2014
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Antwerpen · since 2015
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Removal services · since 2024
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Beersel · since 2021
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Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · Brasschaat · since 2021
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Freight transport by road · Brussel · since 2022
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Freight transport by road · Lendelede · since 2011
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Non-scheduled passenger transport by road · since 2007
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Logistics services · Oud-Turnhout · since 2008
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Vervoer via pijpleidingen · since 2023
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Brussel · since 1991
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Retail sale of bread and pastry (bakery outlets)
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Waterloo · since 2012
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Antwerpen · since 1998
Names that resemble it 32 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Freight transport by road · Ingelmunster · since 1985
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Charleroi · since 1989
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Freight transport by road · Nazareth · since 1996
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Ninove · since 2002
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Removal services · since 1993
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Dental practice · Tongeren-Borgloon · since 2019
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Dental practice · since 2021
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Name of an establishment of MARCO BARBER · Hairdressing and barber services · Kortenberg · since 2021
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Merksplas · since 2023
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Ronse · since 2006
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Other postal and courier activities · since 2025
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Halle · since 2024
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Other publishing activities, excluding software publishing · Beerse · since 1992
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2015
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Scheduled passenger transport by road · since 2001
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Freight transport by road · Mechelen · since 2019
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Name of an establishment of MOUSTAIN · Agents in the wholesale of textiles, clothing, fur, footwear and leather goods · Anderlecht · since 2020
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Removal services · since 1995
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Detailhandel in kledingstoffen · since 2023
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Other specialised construction activities · Dour · since 2023
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Zutendaal · since 2009
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Name of an establishment of D & C METAAL · Coating of metals · Anzegem · since 2011
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Postdiensten in het kader van de universele dienstverplichting · since 2011
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Other business support services · since 2025
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Other building finishing work · Evere · since 1984
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Elsene · since 1991
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Office administrative and support services · since 2002
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Other postal and courier activities · Harelbeke · since 2017
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Brussel · since 2018
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since 2023
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Name of an establishment of DK MULTI FOOD · Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Waterloo · since 2009
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Other postal and courier activities · since 2010