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.
“RETRA”
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
14 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
-
Abbreviation of Recuperatie- en Transportmaatschappij · Materials recovery from waste · Gent · since 1979
-
Joinery installation · Lessines · since 2005
-
Name of an establishment of MVITRA · Freight transport by road · Diest · since 1995
-
Activities of head offices · Gent · since 2012
-
Renting and leasing of cars and light motor vehicles · Aartselaar · since 1985
-
Retail sale of clothing and accessories for women, men, children and babies (general range) · Harelbeke · since 1991
-
Full-service restaurants · since 1995
-
Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2010
-
Full-service restaurants · since 2018
-
Gistel · since 2018
-
Physiotherapy · Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe · since 2023
-
General electrical installation work · Anderlecht · since 2025
-
Ninove · since 1996
-
Abbreviation of Organisation Européenne de Transport · Brussel · since 1968
Names that resemble it 33 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
-
Freight transport by road · Torhout · since 1998
-
Office administrative and support services · since 2017
-
Physiotherapy · Kruisem · since 2018
-
Visual arts creation · Antoing · since 2023
-
Esch-Alzette · since 1977
-
General construction of residential buildings · Theux · since 2010
-
Repair and maintenance of electrical equipment · Ronse · since 2022
-
Abbreviation of RESEAU EUROPEEN SUR LE TERRITOIRE · Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe · since 1994
-
Business and other management consultancy · Merelbeke-Melle · since 2019
-
Abbreviation of REPASS'EXPRESS TOURNAI · Huishoudelijke persoonlijke dienstverlening · Tournai · since 2009
-
Freight transport by road · Antwerpen · since 2023
-
since 1986
-
Support activities for crop production · Westerlo · since 1992
-
Elsene · since 1992
-
Veurne · since 2015
-
Freight transport by road · Lievegem · since 2020
-
Retail sale of antiques · Gent · since 2020
-
Freight transport by road · since 2020
-
Freight transport by road · Westerlo · since 2021
-
Physiotherapy · Keerbergen · since 2021
-
Agents in the wholesale of timber and building materials · Antwerpen · since 2023
-
Name of an establishment of COREPRO · Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · Charleroi · since 2009
-
Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Antwerpen · since 2004
-
Business and other management consultancy · Liedekerke · since 2024
-
Neuss · since 2009
-
Neuss · since 2009
-
Office administrative and support services · Waasmunster · since 1986
-
Abbreviation of Etudes, Travaux, Réalisations, Automations · Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · Namur · since 1990
-
Abbreviation of European Textile Rental Association · Asse · since 1991
-
General construction of residential buildings · since 2026
-
General electrical installation work · Grobbendonk · since 2012
-
Name of an establishment of ReTraCo Benelux · Other specialised construction activities · since 2004
-
Abbreviation of Real Estate Terrains · Buying and selling of own real estate · Genk · since 2018