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.
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
69 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Painting of buildings · Schaarbeek · since 1980
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Abbreviation of RUTTEN ELECTROMECANIQUE · Vervaardiging van hydraulische en pneumatische apparatuur · Herstal · since 1981
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Book publishing · Kinrooi · since 2009
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Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · Pelt · since 2012
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · since 2008
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Veterinary services · since 2016
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Plastering work · since 1999
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since 1997
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Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2025
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Site preparation · Peer · since 2022
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 2012
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Proefboren en boren · since 2014
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Groothandel in reinigingsmiddelen · since 1990
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Raising of dairy cattle · since 1988
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Retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds and fertilisers · since 2016
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Tattoo and piercing services · since 2024
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Wallpapering and laying of floor and wall coverings in other materials · since 2018
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Construction of roads and motorways · since 1989
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Reparatie en onderhoud van civiele schepen · since 2020
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since 2009
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Other personal services · since 2023
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Other business support services · since 2025
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 2026
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Name of JACOBS CARS · Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Dilsen-Stokkem · since 1997
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Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Geel · since 1999
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Joinery installation · since 2017
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Sports and recreation education · since 1996
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General maintenance and repair of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2012
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Name of Garage Jacobs · Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Genk · since 1974
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Retail sale of information and communication equipment · Houthalen-Helchteren · since 1990
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Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers · Kinrooi · since 2014
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Landscape service activities · since 2016
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Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · since 1995
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Cafés and bars · since 1974
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Other human health activities · since 2025
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General electrical installation work · since 2019
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2020
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Sound recording · since 2020
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Floor and wall tiling · Oudsbergen · since 2021
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Mixed farming · since 1995
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Cafés and bars · since 1986
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Retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds and fertilisers · since 1992
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Retail sale of electrical household appliances · since 1999
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Cultural education · since 2022
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Mixed farming · since 2022
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Landscape service activities · since 2022
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Households as employers of domestic personnel · since 2023
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since 2022
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Literary creation · since 2017
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since 2009
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Visual arts creation · since 2011
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since 2026
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since 1988
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since 1989
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since 1997
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Other education · since 2003
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Computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and related activities · since 2005
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Landscape service activities · since 2005
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Design of textile patterns, clothing, jewellery, furniture and decorative items · since 2006
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Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · since 2006
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since 2024
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Landscape service activities · since 2025
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Cafés and bars · since 2025
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Other technical testing and analysis · since 2025
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Business and other management consultancy · since 2026
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since 2023
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since 1991
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Retail sale of fruit and vegetables · since 2001
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2003
Names that resemble it 1 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Business and other management consultancy · Balen · since 2021