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.
“EXPO”
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
18 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Londerzeel · since 1975
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Groothandel in aanhangwagens, opleggers en caravans · Londerzeel · since 1986
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Abbreviation of Jeugdhuis Expo · Sint-Truiden · since 2014
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Full-service restaurants · since 2011
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Name of an establishment of GEERIT · Retail sale of newspapers and periodicals · Antwerpen · since 2007
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Manufacture of other wood products · since 2008
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Design and construction of stages and sets · Malle · since 2019
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Nivelles · since 1998
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Retail sale of other second-hand goods, excluding clothing · Geel · since 2013
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Business and other management consultancy · Antwerpen · since 2016
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Office administrative and support services · Antwerpen · since 2005
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Organisation of conventions and trade shows · Balen · since 1989
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Organisation of conventions and trade shows · Londerzeel · since 2014
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Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Roeselare · since 2015
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Other education · Rotselaar · since 2019
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Wholesale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Londerzeel · since 2019
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since 1984
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Cafés and bars · Leuven · since 2006
Names that resemble it 36 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Abbreviation of Exploitation Point of sales · Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Courcelles · since 2011
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Land surveying · Ieper · since 2007
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Name of an establishment of I.C.K. · Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · Kapelle-op-den-Bos · since 1977
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Abbreviation of FINANCIAL RESEARCH SYSTEMS · Kampenhout · since 1989
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Other business support services · Antwerpen · since 1993
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Name of an establishment of HUGO · Cafés and bars · Hasselt · since 1996
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Abbreviation of VERENIGING VOOR ORGANISATIE EN BEHEER VAN TEENTOONSTELLINGEN · Sint-Pieters-Woluwe · since 2015
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Verhuur en lease van woon- en bureelcontainers en dergelijke accommodatie · Zaventem · since 2021
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Grimbergen · since 2004
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Full-service restaurants · Kapelle-op-den-Bos · since 2024
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Lille · since 1993
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Event catering · Kortrijk · since 1995
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Joinery installation · Lille · since 1998
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Name of an establishment of FINANCE PATRIMOINE · Agents in the wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco · since 2013
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Other professional, scientific and technical activities · since 2014
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2006
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Computer programming · Wijnegem · since 2023
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Public relations and communication consultancy · Deinze · since 2011
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Wholesale of pharmaceutical and medical goods · since 1985
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Organisation of conventions and trade shows · Roeselare · since 2024
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Mouscron · since 1999
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Urban planning and landscape architecture · Mortsel · since 2018
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Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2020
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Brakel · since 1969
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Organisation of conventions and trade shows · Antwerpen · since 1975
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Gent · since 1991
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Agents in the wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco · Mons · since 1994
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Antwerpen · since 1998
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Wholesale of construction materials, general range · Lint · since 1999
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Organisation of conventions and trade shows · Turnhout · since 2012
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Wholesale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 1986
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Name of an establishment · Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · Boortmeerbeek · since 2013
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Activities of head offices · Wevelgem · since 2008
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Wholesale of industrial chemicals · Willebroek · since 2009
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Vervaardiging van verf, vernis ed, drukinkt en mastiek · Tessenderlo-Ham · since 2011
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Aarschot · since 1993