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.
“HORTA”
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
12 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Name of an establishment of A.T.D. · Handelsbemiddeling in de groothandel in landbouwgrondstoffen, levende dieren en textielgrondstoffen en halffabricaten · Ternat · since 1993
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Full-service restaurants · Antwerpen · since 1997
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Landscape service activities · Diepenbeek · since 1999
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Retail sale of pets, pet food and pet supplies · Wuustwezel · since 2023
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Name of an establishment of DEVO · Retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds and fertilisers · Hoogstraten · since 1984
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Landscape service activities · since 2009
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Activities of lawyers · since 2022
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Activities of lawyers · since 2024
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Retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds and fertilisers · Hamont-Achel · since 2015
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Retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds and fertilisers · Wellen · since 2022
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Business and other management consultancy · De Haan · since 2026
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Construction of roads and motorways · since 1993
Names that resemble it 26 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds and fertilisers · Ans · since 2017
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Landscape service activities · Halen · since 2007
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Landscape service activities · Heist-op-den-Berg · since 2011
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Landscape service activities · Namur · since 2025
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Trade name of SOLAVIA · Business and other management consultancy · Steenokkerzeel · since 2003
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Business and other management consultancy · Halen · since 2008
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Full-service restaurants · Zonhoven · since 1995
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Groothandel in suiker, chocolade en suikerwerk · Tongeren-Borgloon · since 2015
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Landscape service activities · Zwalm · since 2018
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Other cleaning activities · since 2019
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Landscape service activities · Heist-op-den-Berg · since 2019
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Retail sale of clothing and accessories for women, men, children and babies (general range) · since 2021
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Retail sale of antiques · since 2004
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Full-service restaurants · Turnhout · since 2025
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Abbreviation of Hulshout offroad racing · Other amusement and recreation activities · Hulshout · since 2021
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Manufacture of jewellery · since 2023
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Plastering work · Ninove · since 2014
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Business and other management consultancy · Maldegem · since 1993
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Landscape service activities · since 2020
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Other business support services · Zulte · since 2020
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Landscape service activities · since 2021
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Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · Peer · since 2021
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Landscape service activities · since 2025
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Urban planning and landscape architecture · since 2026
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Name of an establishment of LES COMPTOIRS D'ORTA · Detailhandel in kledingstoffen · Elsene · since 2016
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Raising of sheep and goats · Lede · since 2010