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.
“FRANSKEN”
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
17 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Floor and wall tiling · Lede · since 2025
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Wijnegem · since 1975
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Joinery installation · Hechtel-Eksel · since 1990
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Name of an establishment of Franken.be · Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery · Kluisbergen · since 1993
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Plumbing work · Kalmthout · since 2015
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Site preparation · Brecht · since 2016
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Name of CLEFRA · General construction of residential buildings · Bree · since 2011
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Dental practice · Heusden-Zolder · since 2008
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Landscape service activities · Brecht · since 2024
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Groothandel in uurwerken en sieraden · Hasselt · since 1976
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Vervaardiging van keukenmeubelen · Pelt · since 1989
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Floor and wall tiling · Zoersel · since 1995
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Abbreviation of FRANSSEN DAMES-, HEREN- & KINDERKLEDING · Retail sale of household textiles and bedding · Maasmechelen · since 1999
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Performing arts by independent artists · since 2014
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Plumbing work · since 2016
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Computer programming · since 2004
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Raising of dairy cattle · Essen · since 2007
Names that resemble it 30 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Renting and operating of own or leased non-residential real estate, excluding land · Heist-op-den-Berg · since 2021
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since 2021
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Machining of metals · since 2025
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Retail sale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · Oudenburg · since 1990
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Freight transport by road · Heist-op-den-Berg · since 2018
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Performing arts by independent artists · Gent · since 2026
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General construction of other non-residential buildings · Ingelmunster · since 1998
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Buying and selling of own real estate · Zandhoven · since 2011
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Construction of roads and motorways · Kapellen · since 2002
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Joinery installation · since 2020
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Full-service restaurants · Antwerpen · since 1995
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Business and other management consultancy · Harelbeke · since 2000
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Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · Kortenaken · since 2014
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Plumbing work · Beernem · since 2021
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Gent · since 2010
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Vervaardiging van veevoeders · Nazareth-De Pinte · since 2004
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Inzameling van gevaarlijk afval · since 2026
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Zele · since 1988
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Mechelen · since 1993
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Retail sale of wines and spirits · Izegem · since 1999
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Cultural education · since 2014
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 2021
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Logistics services · since 2021
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Physiotherapy · Edegem · since 2022
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since 2022
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since 2024
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Full-service restaurants · Niel · since 2025
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Business and other management consultancy · Bouillon · since 2011
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Literary creation · since 2012
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Joinery installation · Halen · since 2006