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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.

“REFINIO”

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

3 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • REFINIO same name
    Business and other management consultancy · Evergem · since 2025
  • Sole trader very similar
    Other specialised construction activities · since 2015
  • REFINCO very similar
    Other financial services · Dentergem · since 2021
Names that resemble it 19 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • REFIN similar
    Insurance agents and brokers · Brasschaat · since 1991
  • REFINA similar
    Grobbendonk · since 1999
  • REFINITIV SA similar
    News agency activities · Genève · since 2000
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2018
  • Sole trader similar
    Repair and maintenance of other personal and household goods · since 2024
  • Sole trader similar
    Other business support services · since 2015
  • Sole trader similar
    Other personal services · since 2017
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2021
  • Refined similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Hoogstraten · since 2022
  • Sole trader similar
    Event catering · since 2025
  • Sole trader similar
    Wholesale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · since 2016
  • Refinado similar
    Activities of holding companies · Sint-Niklaas · since 2022
  • REFINDER similar
    Name of an establishment of TCHAMBA - REFINDER · Vervaardiging van andere elektrische apparatuur · Welkenraedt · since 2012
  • REFIL similar
    Renting and operating of own or leased non-residential real estate, excluding land · Assenede · since 1990
  • FINIO similar
    Other construction installation · Antwerpen · since 2018
  • REFIK similar
    Sint-Niklaas · since 2023
  • Sole trader similar
    Mobile food service activities · since 2025
  • Refix similar
    Gent · since 2026
  • RE-FIX similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    General construction of residential buildings · Antwerpen · since 1994

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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