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.
“GERT CLAES”
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
23 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Other specialised design activities · Tremelo · since 1988
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Repair and maintenance of other personal and household goods · Beringen · since 2019
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Pre-press and pre-media services · since 2012
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Activities of holding companies · Arendonk · since 2012
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2014
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Activities of holding companies · Tongeren-Borgloon · since 2021
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Landscape service activities · Dendermonde · since 2024
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Name of an establishment of HORLOGERIE - BIJOUTERIE CLAES · Retail sale of watches and jewellery · Jette · since 1985
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Glaszetten · Lummen · since 1988
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Cutting, shaping and finishing of stone · Nijlen · since 1988
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Sint-Truiden · since 1991
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Artisanal bread and fresh pastry making · Steenokkerzeel · since 1992
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Bilzen-Hoeselt · since 1998
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Warehousing and storage · Scherpenheuvel-Zichem · since 2001
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Nursing and midwifery · since 2014
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Business and other management consultancy · Herk-de-Stad · since 2017
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Development of residential building projects · Geraardsbergen · since 2023
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Landscape service activities · since 2021
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Psychology services · since 2009
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Bricklaying and masonry work · since 2011
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Groothandel in sport- en kampeerartikelen, met uitzondering van fietsen · since 1965
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since 1988
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · since 1998
Names that resemble it 1 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · since 2025