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.
“GIEL”
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
4 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Screed work · Brecht · since 2008
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Boutersem · since 2025
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Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · since 2024
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Name of G&G Works · General cleaning of buildings · Begijnendijk · since 2025
Names that resemble it 44 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Materials recovery from waste · Tongeren-Borgloon · since 1968
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Abbreviation of G.I.E. - GENERAL IMPORT EXPORT · Awans · since 1986
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Wholesale of electrical household appliances and audio-video equipment · Sint-Truiden · since 1989
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Wholesale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · Westerlo · since 1998
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Retail sale of automotive fuel · Riemst · since 1999
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Nursing and midwifery · Pelt · since 2019
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Site preparation · Maarkedal · since 2023
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Joinery installation · since 2014
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Growing of pome and stone fruits · Sint-Truiden · since 2008
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Abbreviation of GI EUROPE · Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · Linkebeek · since 2023
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Other professional, scientific and technical activities · since 2024
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Landscape service activities · since 2026
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Retail sale of clothing and accessories for women, men, children and babies (general range) · Aarschot · since 1991
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2020
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Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · Kasterlee · since 2026
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Other building finishing work · Ninove · since 1989
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Abbreviation of Global Import and Export Company · Antwerpen · since 1995
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Abbreviation of GORSHENIN INSTITUTE EU · since 2013
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Other building finishing work · since 2025
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Cutting, shaping and finishing of stone · Bilzen-Hoeselt · since 1990
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Teelt van andere eenjarige gewassen, n.e.g. · BIERVLIET · since 2024
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Tattoo and piercing services · since 2015
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General maintenance and repair of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 1988
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since 1975
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since 1972
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Maldegem · since 2023
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2014
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Sprimont · since 2015
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Veterinary services · since 1992
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 1997
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Other amusement and recreation activities · since 2009
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2022
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since 1982
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Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · since 2004
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Raising of dairy cattle · since 2005
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Retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds and fertilisers · since 2006
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Sports and recreation education · since 2006
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Nursing and midwifery · since 2024
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Production of cinema films · since 2025
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since 2026
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since 1966
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Development of residential building projects · Riemst · since 2019
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Abbreviation of GESTION ET INFORMATISATION DE L'ENTREPRISE · La Hulpe · since 1988
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Other building finishing work · Oudsbergen · since 2020