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 Voerman”
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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Full-service restaurants · Ieper · since 1974
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Name of an establishment of AURIGA · Cafés and bars · Essen · since 2014
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Full-service restaurants · since 1977
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Cafés and bars · since 2004
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Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers · since 1986
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Promotion and organisation of arts and performing arts events · Antwerpen · since 2000
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Cafés and bars · since 2008
Names that resemble it 24 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Lebbeke · since 2015
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Full-service restaurants · since 1984
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Wholesale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · Roubaix · since 2016
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Equestrian clubs · Rotselaar · since 2017
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Kortrijk · since 1992
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Agents and brokers in banking services · Hove · since 2023
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Roofing work · Stekene · since 2020
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Other professional, scientific and technical activities · Izegem · since 2020
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Landscape service activities · Kluisbergen · since 2001
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Bricklaying and masonry work · Wortegem-Petegem · since 2014
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Retail sale of hardware, building materials, paint and glass (general range) · Vilvoorde · since 2011
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Raising of dairy cattle · since 1986
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Zulte · since 1984
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Real estate agency activities · Leuven · since 1994
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Wetteren · since 1996
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Post-production of films, video and television programmes · Gent · since 2022
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Mixed farming · Sint-Pieters-Leeuw · since 2009
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Retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds and fertilisers · Hoogstraten · since 1984
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Risk and damage evaluation · Kortrijk · since 1999
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Other specialised construction activities · since 2002
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Knokke-Heist · since 2018
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Wholesale of electrical equipment, including installation materials · since 1994
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General maintenance and repair of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Houthalen-Helchteren · since 2022
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Roofing work · Riemst · since 2007