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
1 registered enterprise with a name easily confused with yours.
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Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · Gent · since 2022
Names that resemble it 24 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Physiotherapy · Liedekerke · since 2012
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Full-service restaurants · since 1996
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Name of an establishment of M&W Invest · Full-service restaurants · since 2021
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Abbreviation of Paul et Elaine KERF · Proefboren en boren · Pepinster · since 2010
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2012
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Leopoldsburg · since 2004
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Holiday cottages, homes and apartments · Bierbeek · since 2006
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Design of textile patterns, clothing, jewellery, furniture and decorative items · since 2006
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Vervaardiging van bereide maaltijden en schotels · since 2023
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Kampeer- en caravanterreinen · Theux · since 1976
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Beveren · since 1987
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Renting and operating of own or leased non-residential real estate, excluding land · Grobbendonk · since 1992
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Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2013
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Agents in the wholesale of furniture, household goods and hardware · Dilsen-Stokkem · since 2020
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Buying and selling of own real estate · Kasterlee · since 2012
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Dilbeek · since 2003
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Full-service restaurants · Zemst · since 1990
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Full-service restaurants · since 2001
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2015
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Contract catering and other food service activities · since 1998
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Full-service restaurants · since 2012
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Full-service restaurants · since 2006
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Name of an establishment of RESTAURANT PEKIN JARDIN · Vervaardiging van bereide maaltijden en schotels · Mouscron · since 1987
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Wavre · since 2013