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.
“FAROSE”
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
19 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Wholesale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · Lessines · since 2004
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Abbreviation of Faros - competition & data protection · Activities of lawyers · Machelen (Brab.) · since 2022
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Computer programming · Kontich · since 2004
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Business and other management consultancy · Aarschot · since 2004
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Advertising agencies · Braine-l'Alleud · since 2024
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Hasselt · since 1980
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Pont-à-Celles · since 1984
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Full-service restaurants · Antwerpen · since 1991
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Wholesale of beverages, general range · Brussel · since 2002
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Full-service restaurants · since 2002
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2023
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Activities of holding companies · Antwerpen · since 2022
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Other non-specialised retail sale · Mortsel · since 2022
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Retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds and fertilisers · since 2010
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Site preparation · Thuin · since 2007
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2007
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2024
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Binche · since 2002
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General construction of residential buildings · Antwerpen · since 2020
Names that resemble it 17 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Vilvoorde · since 1983
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Groothandel in reinigingsmiddelen · Antwerpen · since 1988
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Buying and selling of own real estate · Vorst · since 1991
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Public relations and communication consultancy · Oostkamp · since 2021
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Sports and recreation education · since 2010
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Full-service restaurants · Gent · since 2023
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Other support activities for arts and performing arts · Gent · since 2008
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Repair and maintenance of computers and communication equipment · Lochristi · since 2010
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Varkensvetmesterijen · Staden · since 2013
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Business and other management consultancy · Kraainem · since 2015
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Computer programming · Hasselt · since 2017
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Business and other management consultancy · Hoeilaart · since 2021
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Retail sale of newspapers and periodicals · Antwerpen · since 2010
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Book publishing · Putte · since 2022
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leiden · since 2007
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Activities of holding companies · Oostkamp · since 2023
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Buying and selling of own real estate · since 2011