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.
“ELWA”
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
2 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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General electrical installation work · Herent · since 1972
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Brasschaat · since 1988
Names that resemble it 20 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Groothandel in motorfietsen, delen en toebehoren van motorfietsen · Niel · since 2014
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Landscape service activities · Dilsen-Stokkem · since 2000
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Name of an establishment of MAVIEGE · Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Anderlecht · since 2002
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Vorst · since 2003
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Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers · Zedelgem · since 2008
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Retail sale of newspapers and periodicals · Brussel · since 1988
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Business and other management consultancy · Brecht · since 2000
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Business and other management consultancy · Wommelgem · since 2015
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Real estate agency activities · Zedelgem · since 2018
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Agents specialised in the wholesale of other particular products · since 2012
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Abbreviation of ELECTRICITEITSWERKEN BREEMERSCH · General electrical installation work · Beernem · since 2008
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · Kortenaken · since 2026
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Full-service restaurants · Antwerpen · since 2025
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Activities of holding companies · Hamme (Vl.) · since 1989
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Waregem · since 2017
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Combined facilities support activities · since 2026
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Veveří, Brno · since 2026
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Other activities auxiliary to financial services, excluding insurance and pension funding · Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe · since 2017
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Retail sale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · since 2020
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since 2022