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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.

“MARUD”

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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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  • 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

8 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • MARUD same name
    Zottegem · since 2010
  • MARUD same name
    Name of an establishment of VIA DEL SUD · Literary creation · Tongeren-Borgloon · since 2025
  • MARUS very similar
    Name of an establishment of BIEBAUW BART · Event catering · Oostkamp · since 2012
  • MARUB very similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Asse · since 2007
  • MARUS very similar
    Full-service restaurants · Oostkamp · since 2023
  • Maraud very similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Nazareth-De Pinte · since 2019
  • Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · since 2010
  • Other building finishing work · since 2024
Names that resemble it 32 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • MARU similar
    Retail sale of antiques · Antwerpen · since 1977
  • MARU similar
    Varkensvetmesterijen · Lo-Reninge · since 2014
  • MARU similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Wemmel · since 2019
  • MaRu similar
    Abbreviation of Management Rudi · Activities of holding companies · Tessenderlo-Ham · since 2022
  • MARU similar
    Landscape service activities · Niel · since 2022
  • Maru Deco similar
    Manufacture of dining room, living room, bedroom and bathroom furniture · Lievegem · since 2015
  • MARUTA similar
    Dental practice · Verviers · since 1989
  • Marupa similar
    Wholesale of other food products · Tongeren-Borgloon · since 1992
  • MARUBO similar
    Other construction installation · Harelbeke · since 2000
  • MARUSA similar
    Certified accountants and tax accountants · Antwerpen · since 2012
  • MARUBO similar
    Other business support services · Lanaken · since 2015
  • Maruti similar
    Wholesale of diamonds and other precious stones · Antwerpen · since 2018
  • MARULA similar
    Vermogensbeheer · Lasne · since 2016
  • Maruno similar
    Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Overijse · since 2022
  • MARUVA similar
    Service activities incidental to land transportation · Pittem · since 2023
  • MARULA similar
    Event catering · Wuustwezel · since 2009
  • Groothandel in weefsels, stoffen en fournituren · since 1966
  • MARUXO similar
    Herk-de-Stad · since 2025
  • 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
  • MARUANI similar
    Retail sale of other cultural and recreation goods · Knokke-Heist · since 2004
  • MARULIM similar
    Other business support services · Hove · since 2008
  • Marufin similar
    Other activities auxiliary to financial services, excluding insurance and pension funding · Londerzeel · since 2025
  • M.A.R. similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Brugge · since 1968

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