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
68 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Vervaardiging van roomijs en ander consumptie-ijs · Veurne · since 1979
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Name of an establishment of VOLPIFACER · Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Cerfontaine · since 1999
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
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Machining of metals · Ledegem · since 2011
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Insurance agents and brokers · Torhout · since 2005
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Painting of buildings · Ingelmunster · since 1965
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Agents and brokers in banking services · Torhout · since 2018
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Name of an establishment of MESTDAGH en Zonen · Other specialised construction activities · Tielt · since 2009
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Insurance agents and brokers · Mouscron · since 2020
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Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · since 1990
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Artisanal bread and fresh pastry making · since 1999
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since 2011
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since 2016
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2018
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Manufacture of jewellery · since 2020
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since 1994
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Ledegem · since 2011
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since 1988
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since 2007
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Activities of bailiffs · Estaimpuis · since 2023
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Activities of holding companies · Mechelen · since 2024
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since 1985
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since 1972
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Retail sale of watches and jewellery · since 1974
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Retail sale of fruit and vegetables · since 2015
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General medical practice · since 2015
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · since 2015
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Retail sale of antiques · since 2016
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Landscape service activities · since 1998
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2019
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Bodywork repair (including spraying and painting) · since 1997
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Socio-cultural adult education · since 2021
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since 2021
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2024
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Landscape service activities · since 2021
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Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers · since 2022
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since 2022
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since 2023
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Repair and maintenance of electrical equipment · since 2021
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since 1996
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Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · since 2011
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since 1970
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Sports and recreation education · since 2004
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Vervaardiging van spellen en speelgoed · since 2006
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Veterinary services · since 2025
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Freight transport by road · since 2025
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Other professional, scientific and technical activities · since 2026
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Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2026
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Specialist medical practice · Aalst · since 1998
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Computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and related activities · since 2014
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since 2014
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Groothandel in uurwerken en sieraden · since 2015
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Retail sale of fruit and vegetables · since 2008
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Mixed farming · since 2015
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Groothandel in machines, werktuigen en toebehoren voor de landbouw · since 1984
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General cleaning of buildings · since 2016
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Landscape service activities · since 2017
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Renting and leasing of sports and recreation goods · since 2017
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since 1990
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since 1995
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since 2020
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since 1997
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Other education · since 2023
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2008
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Day nurseries and crèches · since 2015
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Other holiday and short-stay accommodation · since 2011
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since 2017
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Households as employers of domestic personnel · since 2023
Names that resemble it 3 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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since 1988
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 2016
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Joinery installation · since 2025