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“HOED”

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Same or very similar names

4 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • HOED same name
    Buying and selling of own real estate · Leuven · since 2004
  • Sole trader very similar
    Photography, excluding press photography · since 2019
  • Sole trader very similar
    Full-service restaurants · since 2002
  • CB Hoed very similar
    Abbreviation of Cafe Bolhoed · Brasschaat · since 2026
Names that resemble it 29 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • H.O.E. similar
    Abbreviation of Haarbosch Onroerendgoed Exploitatie · Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Wuustwezel · since 1995
  • HOEDEC similar
    Trade name of CERTITUBE INTERNATIONAL · Activities of head offices · Roeselare · since 1996
  • Hoeder similar
    Landscape service activities · Ranst · since 2010
  • Hoet similar
    Retail sale of prescription glasses, lenses and sunglasses · Antwerpen · since 2000
  • HOET similar
    Name of an establishment of OPTIEK HOET ROESELARE · Retail sale of prescription glasses, lenses and sunglasses · Roeselare · since 2012
  • HOET similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Koekelare · since 2019
  • HOEK similar
    Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Roeselare · since 2019
  • Hoen similar
    Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Turnhout · since 2021
  • Sole trader similar
    Insulation installation · since 1993
  • HOES similar
    Repair and fitting of specific motor vehicle parts · Olen · since 2008
  • Hoedhaar similar
    Name of an establishment of Stad Lokeren · Afvalwaterafvoer · Lokeren · since 1968
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1975
  • Hoedje af similar
    Pre-press and pre-media services · Waasmunster · since 2014
  • HOEDEHUT similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Sint-Genesius-Rode · since 2016
  • Sole trader similar
    Literary creation · since 2019
  • Sole trader similar
    Other amusement and recreation activities · since 2023
  • Sole trader similar
    Sports and recreation education · since 2008
  • HOEDEKIE similar
    Installation of electric heating, air conditioning, cooling and ventilation · Merelbeke-Melle · since 2008
  • Sole trader similar
    Retail sale of watches and jewellery · since 1995
  • Sole trader similar
    Renting and operating of own or leased non-residential real estate, excluding land · since 2012
  • Sole trader similar
    Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers · since 1997
  • Hoedoededa? similar
    Leuven · since 2019
  • Hoedekens similar
    Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Kapellen · since 2023
  • Sole trader similar
    Mixed farming · since 2023
  • HOEDT KRIS similar
    Vervaardiging van meet-, controle- en navigatie-instrumenten en -apparatuur · Hooglede · since 2010
  • Sole trader similar
    Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2021
  • Sole trader similar
    Vervaardiging van hoeden en petten · since 2010
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2024
  • HOE similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Abbreviation of Haachtse Ontmoetingsgroep voor Echtgescheidenen · Tremelo · since 1997

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).
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