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.
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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Other non-specialised retail sale · Haacht · since 2025
Names that resemble it 31 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Manufacture of dining room, living room, bedroom and bathroom furniture · Bierbeek · since 2018
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Cafés and bars · Destelbergen · since 2022
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Voerendaal · since 1979
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Abbreviation of LIMBURGS OVERLEG ONDERWIJS-ARBEID · Other membership organisations · Hasselt · since 1988
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General electrical installation work · Pepinster · since 1992
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Voeren · since 1995
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Video and film production, excluding cinema and television films · Mechelen · since 1996
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Advertising agencies · since 1995
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Name of an establishment of MASSON · Wholesale of electrical household appliances and audio-video equipment · Antwerpen · since 2014
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 1991
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Production of cinema films · Mons · since 2015
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Name of an establishment of Eat Wise · Full-service restaurants · Merchtem · since 2016
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Name of an establishment of PANACEA · Business and other management consultancy · Merelbeke-Melle · since 2016
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Other manufacturing not elsewhere classified · Antwerpen · since 2016
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Varna · since 2017
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Specialised image, lighting and sound technical services · since 2000
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Business and other management consultancy · Huy · since 2018
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Abbreviation of Land of Opportunities · since 2018
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2019
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Site preparation · Tessenderlo-Ham · since 2019
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General construction of residential buildings · Antwerpen · since 2019
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Computer programming · Chaumont-Gistoux · since 2022
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Bouw van andere civieltechnische werken, n.e.g. · Tessenderlo-Ham · since 2023
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Retail sale of bicycles · since 2025
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Schaarbeek · since 2026
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Renting and leasing of other personal and household goods · since 2025
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Other business support services · since 2025
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Name of an establishment · Growing of pome and stone fruits · Sint-Truiden · since 2015
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Retail sale of fruit and vegetables · since 2021
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Brussel · since 1983
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Retail sale of cosmetics and toilet articles · Turnhout · since 2012