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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.

“HOFMAKER”

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.

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Same or very similar names

3 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • HOFMAKER same name
    Landscape service activities · Beerse · since 2022
  • Hofmakers very similar
    Operation of sports facilities · Wetteren · since 2021
  • DE HOFMAKER very similar
    Trade name of STVH CONSULTANCY · Business and other management consultancy · Keerbergen · since 2015
Names that resemble it 15 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Hofman similar
    Construction of roads and motorways · Aalst · since 1971
  • Sole trader similar
    Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · since 2024
  • HofMan similar
    Activities of head offices · Gent · since 2024
  • HOFMANS similar
    Retail sale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, excluding motor fuels · Ranst · since 1984
  • Hofmans similar
    Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers · Brecht · since 2014
  • Sole trader similar
    General medical practice · since 2014
  • Sole trader similar
    Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers · since 2024
  • HOFMAN PETER similar
    Nursing and midwifery · Sint-Lievens-Houtem · since 2000
  • Sole trader similar
    Vervaardiging van computers en randapparatuur · since 2009
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2013
  • Sole trader similar
    Activities of building architects · since 1974
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1991
  • Visual arts creation · Zonhoven · since 2009
  • Sole trader similar
    General construction of residential buildings · since 2021
  • MAKER similar
    Public relations and communication consultancy · Gent · since 2012

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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