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.
“FINFORMA”
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
10 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Insurance agents and brokers · Maaseik · since 2012
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Activities of holding companies · Antwerpen · since 2009
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Abbreviation of INFORMA EUROPE · Wholesale of information and communication equipment · Merchtem · since 1983
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Manufacture of dining room, living room, bedroom and bathroom furniture · Halle · since 1989
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Trade name of MOIJSON-BONTE · Business and other management consultancy · Oudenburg · since 1996
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Business and other management consultancy · Nazareth-De Pinte · since 2017
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Retail sale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, excluding motor fuels · since 2017
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Habscht · since 2008
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Wholesale of information and communication equipment · since 1988
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Day spas, saunas and steam baths · Sint-Niklaas · since 2025
Names that resemble it 17 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Abbreviation of Equipe pour la Formation à l'Autonomie · Vocational training · Namur · since 1982
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Name of Forma Brussels · Wholesale of non-electrical household articles · Ukkel · since 1985
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Wholesale of non-electrical household articles · Leuven · since 1987
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Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse · since 1993
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Full-service restaurants · Châtelet · since 1994
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Business and other management consultancy · Brasschaat · since 2015
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Business and other management consultancy · Ingelmunster · since 2009
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Luxembourg · since 2005
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Name of an establishment of HADVISORY · Insurance agents and brokers · Montigny-le-Tilleul · since 2018
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Business and other management consultancy · Lier · since 2021
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Business and other management consultancy · Gent · since 2018
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Agents in the wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco · since 2021
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Fitness centres · Zele · since 2023
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Vervaardiging van elektromotoren en van elektrische generatoren en transformatoren · Herve · since 1980
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Physiotherapy · Gent · since 2023
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Watermaal-Bosvoorde · since 1987
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Aalter · since 1999