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.
“Picca”
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
7 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Herzele · since 2011
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Retail sale of clothing and accessories for women, men, children and babies (general range) · since 1988
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Abbreviation of PRIVATE AND INDUSTRIAL CLEANING COMPANY · Other building finishing work · Braine-le-Château · since 1988
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Abbreviation of PAKISTAANS ISLAMITISCH CULTUREEL CENTRUM GENT · Gent · since 2000
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Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · since 2005
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 2024
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Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · Retie · since 1995
Names that resemble it 36 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Retie · since 1997
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Office administrative and support services · since 2003
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Advertising agencies · Elsene · since 1997
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Business and other management consultancy · Hechtel-Eksel · since 2017
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Harelbeke · since 2022
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Other retail sale of new goods · since 2005
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2023
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Cafés and bars · Oostende · since 2005
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Name of an establishment of MAR Y VINO · Full-service restaurants · Oostende · since 2026
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Abbreviation of Pastoraal Informatiecentrum · Activities of religious organisations · Hasselt · since 1970
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Abbreviation of PAINTINGS & INDUSTRIAL COATINGS · General construction of residential buildings · Laarne · since 1981
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Abbreviation of PRODUCTION INDUSTRIELLE DE COMPOSANTS · Vervaardiging van metalen deuren en vensters · Fleurus · since 1989
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Abbreviation of PRISMA INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING · Wholesale of machine tools · Etterbeek · since 1993
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Abbreviation of Protective Industrial Coatings · Agents in the wholesale of timber and building materials · La Hulpe · since 1999
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Abbreviation of Partenaire Immobilier du Condroz · Hamois · since 2022
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Abbreviation of PIZZ'INVESTMENT COMPANY · Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Antoing · since 2007
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Retail sale of footwear · Landen · since 1990
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Full-service restaurants · since 1994
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2010
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Name of an establishment of ALFI · Full-service restaurants · Waterloo · since 1977
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Maasmechelen · since 1992
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2023
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2011
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 1992
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2025
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Literary creation · since 2017
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Artisanal bread and fresh pastry making · since 2023
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Site preparation · since 2003
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Operation of fairground attractions · since 2007
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Abbreviation of ISLAMISTISCH CULTUREEL CENTRUM ALBIDAJA · Antwerpen · since 2014
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Abbreviation of INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHEMICAL ASSOCIATIONS · Business and other management consultancy · Etterbeek · since 2010
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Nursing and midwifery · since 2017
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since 2019
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Specialist medical practice · since 1986
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Groothandel in ijzer- en staalschroot en in oude non-ferrometalen · since 2017
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Abbreviation of PROMOTION IMMOBILIERE COMMERCIALE · Elsene · since 1987