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.
“POUTREL”
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
10 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Video and film production, excluding cinema and television films · Oudenaarde · since 2015
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Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery · Gent · since 2024
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Business and other management consultancy · Vorselaar · since 2024
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Name of an establishment of be served · Holiday cottages, homes and apartments · Brugge · since 2014
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Full-service restaurants · Willebroek · since 2014
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Fitness centres · Kapelle-op-den-Bos · since 2025
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Organisation of conventions and trade shows · Willebroek · since 2017
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Real estate agency activities · Destelbergen · since 2020
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Activities of head offices · Malle · since 2025
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Kortrijk · since 1972
Names that resemble it 4 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Sint-Joost-ten-Node · since 2001
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Abbreviation of Poutrix, Vereniging zonder winstoogmerk · Other educational support services · Gent · since 2015
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Full-service restaurants · since 2005
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Activities of building architects · Merelbeke-Melle · since 2022