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.
“PIDEA”
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
13 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Other legal services · Antwerpen · since 2024
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Oupeye · since 1993
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Abbreviation of Platform In De Maak · Leuven · since 2019
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Landscape service activities · since 2020
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Other business support services · Brugge · since 2021
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Computer programming · since 2022
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Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · Antwerpen · since 2008
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Winning, behandeling en distributie van water · Grobbendonk · since 1968
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Abbreviation of Fédération nationale de la Vidéo amateur · Brussel · since 1982
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Full-service restaurants · Brussel · since 1984
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Name of an establishment of M - IDEA · Advertising agencies · Evergem · since 1999
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Name of an establishment · Other business support services · Lochristi · since 2025
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Performing arts by independent artists · since 2026
Names that resemble it 34 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Elsene · since 1968
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Business and other management consultancy · Kortrijk · since 2021
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Other activities auxiliary to financial services, excluding insurance and pension funding · Waregem · since 2005
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Vervaardiging van synthetische en kunstmatige vezels · Damme · since 1999
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Abbreviation of PLUYM INVEST & DEVELOPMENT · Activities of holding companies · Ravels · since 2016
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Abbreviation of Partners in Development · Development of residential building projects · Opwijk · since 2022
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Waregem · since 1990
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Business and other management consultancy · Wevelgem · since 1990
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Full-service restaurants · since 2015
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Kortrijk · since 2018
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Full-service restaurants · Somme-Leuze · since 2020
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Other information technology and computer services · Gent · since 2022
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Activities of holding companies · Elsene · since 2010
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2011
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Abbreviation of "I.D.E.A. S.C" · Market research and public opinion polling · Mons · since 1956
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Wholesale of non-electrical household articles · Bornem · since 1981
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Performing arts by artistic ensembles · Elsene · since 1987
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Other building finishing work · Brugge · since 1988
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Beauvechain · since 1989
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Abbreviation of INTERNATIONAL DECOR EXPORT AGENCY · Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · Beauvechain · since 1990
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Cafés and bars · Dendermonde · since 1991
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Hairdressing and barber services · Bastogne · since 1999
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Agents specialised in the wholesale of other particular products · Soumagne · since 2002
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Vervaardiging van producten van vezelcement · since 1993
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Abbreviation of IDEA Chauffage et Sanitaire · Plumbing work · Grez-Doiceau · since 2016
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Gembloux · since 2016
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Other retail sale of food · since 1995
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Detailhandel in boeken · since 2020
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Abbreviation of ICEHOCKEY DEVELOPMENT AND ENTERTAINMENT ASSOCIATION · Liedekerke · since 2009
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Retail sale of newspapers and periodicals · since 1982
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Abbreviation of INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT,ENVIRONMENT,AND ARCHITECTURE · Elsene · since 2004
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Development of non-residential building projects · Wortegem-Petegem · since 2005
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Other printing · Antwerpen · since 2008
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Vermogensbeheer · Knokke-Heist · since 2024