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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.

“HGP”

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.

Same or very similar names

2 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • HGP same name
    Support activities for animal production · Hamme (Vl.) · since 2014
  • HGP same name
    Abbreviation of Home Garden Partners · Roofing work · Chaumont-Gistoux · since 2013
Names that resemble it 5 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • HG similar
    Name of an establishment of HG BELGIUM · Groothandel in reinigingsmiddelen · Gent · since 2000
  • HG similar
    Abbreviation of Het Gedoe · Literary creation · Lommel · since 2021
  • Hg similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Izegem · since 2022
  • HG similar
    Name of an establishment of Dr. Katrien Bruyninckx · General medical practice · Aarschot · since 2023
  • H²G similar
    Activities of bailiffs · Linkebeek · since 2009

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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