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Is your company name still free?

Compared with the KBO register · free

Type the name you want to use. You see at once whether an active company already has the same or a similar name, and whether it works in your sector.

“PAPIER PRESENT”

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.

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Same or very similar names

10 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • PAPIER PRESENT same name
    Groothandel in kantoor- en schoolbenodigdheden · Merchtem · since 1983
  • Present very similar
    Abbreviation of Present, Caritas Vrijwilligerswerk · Other social work without accommodation · Sint-Joost-ten-Node · since 1978
  • PRESENT very similar
    Name of an establishment of PAULUSSEN - JANSSENS · Retail sale of fruit and vegetables · Hoogstraten · since 1998
  • PRESENT very similar
    Specialist medical practice · Waterloo · since 2000
  • PRESENT very similar
    Travel agency activities · Blankenberge · since 2000
  • PRESENT very similar
    Detailhandel in onderkleding, lingerie en strand- en badkleding · Gent · since 2016
  • Sole trader very similar
    Public relations and communication consultancy · since 2019
  • PRESENT very similar
    Performing arts by independent artists · Kortenberg · since 2011
  • Papier SARL very similar
    WATTRELOS · since 2016
  • Sole trader very similar
    Detailhandel in boeken · since 2023
Names that resemble it 1 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Ever Present similar
    Activities of holding companies · Beersel · since 2009

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. A name can be free in the register and still be protected as a trademark. Trademarks are searched in the 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.

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