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
3 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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General construction of residential buildings · Gent · since 1980
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2010
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Full-service restaurants · since 1974
Names that resemble it 57 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Renting and operating of own or leased non-residential real estate, excluding land · Wuustwezel · since 1989
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Roofing work · Middelkerke · since 1989
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Name of an establishment of VECTIS · Landscape service activities · Blégny · since 1996
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Gavere · since 1998
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Full-service restaurants · Gent · since 2021
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Coating of metals · since 2021
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Name of an establishment of Mortier Dirk · General construction of residential buildings · Lievegem · since 2005
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · Haaltert · since 2005
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Development of residential building projects · since 2006
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Property management for co-owned buildings (syndics) · Damme · since 2018
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General construction of other non-residential buildings · Dentergem · since 2018
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Full-service restaurants · Gent · since 2020
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Activities of holding companies · Nijlen · since 2010
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Bilzen-Hoeselt · since 2018
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Landscape service activities · since 2016
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Installation of electric heating, air conditioning, cooling and ventilation · Wingene · since 2009
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Vosselaar · since 2014
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General construction of residential buildings · since 2021
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Name of an establishment of JASWAL TRADING · Full-service restaurants · Gent · since 2019
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Business and other management consultancy · Keerbergen · since 2020
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General electrical installation work · since 2015
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Retail sale of other cultural and recreation goods · since 2016
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since 1984
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Detailhandel in breigarens, handwerken en fournituren · since 2017
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since 1997
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Other specialised design activities · since 2021
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Graphic design and visual communication · since 2018
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General construction of residential buildings · since 2023
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Growing of flowers · since 1983
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2010
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Specialist medical practice · since 2006
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Computer programming · since 2012
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Activities of lawyers · since 2024
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Tourist information services · since 2024
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Plumbing work · Jemeppe-sur-Sambre · since 1982
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Niet-gespecialiseerde groothandel in niet-diepgevroren voedingsmiddelen, dranken en genotmiddelen · Roeselare · since 2014
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Name of an establishment of AliTia · Full-service restaurants · Hasselt · since 2015
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Buying and selling of own real estate · Aalst · since 2018
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Vermogensbeheer · Antwerpen · since 2015
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Tattoo and piercing services · since 2020
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Business and other management consultancy · Antwerpen · since 2009
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Name of an establishment of Merksemse Rijschool · Driving schools for cars and motorcycles · Antwerpen · since 2004
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Groothandel in machines, werktuigen en toebehoren voor de landbouw · Gistel · since 1992
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Other specialised design activities · since 1987
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since 1993
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since 2022
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Mixed farming · since 2019
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General electrical installation work · since 2019
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Business and other management consultancy · Wetteren · since 2021
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Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · since 2011
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Raising of dairy cattle · since 1996
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since 1986
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Knokke-Heist · since 1991
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · since 2022
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Public relations and communication consultancy · since 2024
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2020