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.
“Dries”
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
36 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Name of an establishment of DRIES-HULSMANS · Funeral services · Balen · since 1996
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Full-service restaurants · Leuven · since 2002
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General maintenance and repair of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Dessel · since 2013
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General construction of residential buildings · since 2018
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Landscape service activities · since 2020
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Activities of holding companies · Gent · since 2021
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Business and other management consultancy · Pepingen · since 2023
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Raising of dairy cattle · Ravels · since 2006
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Other professional, scientific and technical activities · since 2026
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Meerhout · since 1985
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Buying and selling of own real estate · Heist-op-den-Berg · since 2003
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Cafés and bars · since 2010
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Other tax advisory services · Heuvelland · since 2021
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Reparatie en onderhoud van huishoudapparaten en van werktuigen voor gebruik in huis en tuin · Zandhoven · since 2022
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Full-service restaurants · since 2023
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Abbreviation of DOCTEUR RIES ETIENNE URGENTISTE · Arlon · since 2023
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Renting and operating of own or leased non-residential real estate, excluding land · since 2020
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Wielsbeke · since 1983
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Staden · since 2026
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Retail sale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, excluding motor fuels · Sint-Gillis-Waas · since 1929
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Aalter · since 1988
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Removal services · since 2014
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Tyre services · since 1986
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Cafés and bars · since 2000
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Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2017
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Video and film production, excluding cinema and television films · since 2019
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since 2019
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Wervik · since 2009
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Renting and leasing of sports and recreation goods · since 1993
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Joinery installation · Bilzen-Hoeselt · since 2021
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Business and other management consultancy · Wielsbeke · since 2022
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Business and other management consultancy · Boutersem · since 2010
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Cafés and bars · Vilvoorde · since 2011
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Activities of holding companies · Aalter · since 2023
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Vermogensbeheer · Bocholt · since 2009
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Name of an establishment · Manufacture of other wood products · Balen · since 2012
Names that resemble it 20 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Boom · since 1991
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Other building finishing work · Haaltert · since 2017
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General electrical installation work · Pelt · since 1986
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Retail sale of bicycles · Lille · since 1987
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Funeral services · Tongeren-Borgloon · since 1988
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Wholesale of other food products · Herentals · since 1988
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Other business support services · Waregem · since 1989
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Wholesale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Genk · since 1997
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Removal services · Lokeren · since 2015
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Activities of holding companies · Ardooie · since 2019
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Risk and damage evaluation · Haaltert · since 2022
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Specialist medical practice · Mechelen · since 1996
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Tilburg · since 1975
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since 2014
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Computer programming · Tessenderlo-Ham · since 2018
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Activities of holding companies · Geel · since 2021
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since 2011
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Grez-Doiceau · since 2024
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2021
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Pelt · since 2006