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Is your company name still free?

Compared with the KBO register · free

Type the name you want to use. You see at once whether an active company already has the same or a similar name, and whether it works in your sector.

“FIMUT”

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.

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Same or very similar names

2 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • FIMUT same name
    Gent · since 1990
  • Timut very similar
    Wholesale of machine tools · Antwerpen · since 1992
Names that resemble it 6 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • FIMUKO similar
    Buying and selling of own real estate · Liedekerke · since 2007
  • F.I.M. similar
    Abbreviation of FUTURE IN MIND · Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel) · since 1984
  • FIM similar
    Abbreviation of FINANCEMENTS ET INVESTISSEMENTS MEDICAUX · Paris · since 1986
  • F.I.M. similar
    Abbreviation of FINANCIERES ET IMMOBILIERES · Etterbeek · since 1988
  • FIM similar
    Renting and operating of own or leased non-residential real estate, excluding land · Lommel · since 2014
  • FIM B.V. similar
    RUCPHEN · since 2017

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. A name can be free in the register and still be protected as a trademark. Trademarks are searched in the 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.

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