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.
“LIGNELL”
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
1 registered enterprise with a name easily confused with yours.
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Elsene · since 1986
Names that resemble it 26 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Retail sale of household furniture · Brussel · since 1968
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Paris · since 1986
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 1993
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 1994
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Name of an establishment of Mobix Engetec · Construction of utility projects for electricity and telecommunications · Manage · since 1986
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Support activities for crop production · Wetteren · since 1990
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Agents in the wholesale of furniture, household goods and hardware · since 2022
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Tournai · since 2009
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Name of an establishment of ALPHA RED BELGIUM · Agents in the wholesale of timber and building materials · Kapellen · since 2014
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Stavelot · since 2022
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Verviers · since 2007
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Landscape service activities · Gesves · since 2024
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Vervaardiging van verlichtingsapparaten · Izegem · since 2016
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Artisanal bread and fresh pastry making · since 2023
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Literary creation · since 2025
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Malmedy · since 1979
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Name of an establishment of Ker Mich · Full-service restaurants · Grez-Doiceau · since 2015
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Name of an establishment of VIVAQUA · Winning, behandeling en distributie van water · Brussel · since 1968
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Buying and selling of own real estate · Antwerpen · since 1956
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Sawmilling and planing of wood · Brecht · since 1968
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Translation services · Kapelle-op-den-Bos · since 1995
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Manufacture of dining room, living room, bedroom and bathroom furniture · Dilsen-Stokkem · since 1996
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Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · Brugge · since 2001
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Detailhandel in onderkleding, lingerie en strand- en badkleding · since 1988
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Joinery installation · Antwerpen · since 2004
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Site preparation · Rixensart · since 2024