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.
“RESTO - MEAT”
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
4 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Retail sale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · Brugge · since 1978
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Name of an establishment of LABOR ARBEIDSKANSEN · Beschutte en sociale werkplaatsen · As · since 1987
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Full-service restaurants
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Cafés and bars · Schilde · since 1991
Names that resemble it 17 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Full-service restaurants · Holsbeek · since 2003
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Charleroi · since 1990
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Abbreviation of ON MY OWN · Other construction installation · Hasselt · since 1993
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Computer programming · Elsene · since 1998
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Vermogensbeheer · Antwerpen · since 2020
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Activities of building architects · Antwerpen · since 2020
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Name of an establishment of MALSEM · Pig breeding farms · Aalter · since 2004
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Full-service restaurants · Charleroi · since 1986
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Full-service restaurants · Elsene · since 1986
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Name of an establishment of THAI CAFE STOCKEL · Full-service restaurants · Sint-Pieters-Woluwe · since 2014
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Manufacture of dining room, living room, bedroom and bathroom furniture · since 2019
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Name of an establishment of LAVIGNA · Other information technology and computer services · Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe · since 2023
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Full-service restaurants · Ath · since 2025
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Name of an establishment of OPTIWATCH · Retail sale of bread and pastry (bakery outlets) · Temse · since 1994
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2023
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Retail sale of other second-hand goods, excluding clothing · Mortsel · since 2024
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Brussel · since 1964