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Compared with the KBO register · free

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.

“MAR17”

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

3 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • MAR17 same name
    Site preparation · Schaarbeek · since 2026
  • MAR10 very similar
    Full-service restaurants · Antwerpen · since 2016
  • MARS17 very similar
    Activities of holding companies · Brasschaat · since 2019
Names that resemble it 13 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • MAR1 similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Kapelle-op-den-Bos · since 2013
  • Computer programming · since 2022
  • M.A.R. similar
    Abbreviation of Montage Industrieller Anlagen Apparate und Rohrleitungsbau · Saarbrücken · since 1968
  • M.A.R. similar
    Abbreviation of MOVIMENTO DE ACCAO E REFLEXAO · since 1998
  • MAR similar
    Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Berlaar · since 2015
  • M.A.R. similar
    Abbreviation of Management Architecture et Ressourcement · Urban planning and landscape architecture · Linkebeek · since 2016
  • MAR similar
    Abbreviation of MAISON DE L’AGRICULTURE ET DE LA RURALITE · Other business support services · Gembloux · since 2018
  • M.A.R. similar
    Groothandel in vis en schaal- en weekdieren · Schaarbeek · since 2021
  • Mar similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Antwerpen · since 2023
  • M.A.R. similar
    Malaga · since 2008
  • General construction of residential buildings · since 2011
  • MAR similar
    Abbreviation of MAROBEL · Antwerpen · since 2012
  • M.A.R. similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Brugge · since 1968

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