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.
“SMETEX”
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
5 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Risk and damage evaluation · Deinze · since 2023
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Activities of holding companies · Waasmunster · since 2022
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Other tax advisory services · Ardooie · since 1989
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Abbreviation of Interbedrijfs - Medische Dienst voor de Tekstielreiniginsbedrijven · Antwerpen · since 1967
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Wholesale of construction materials, general range · Braine-l'Alleud · since 1976
Names that resemble it 54 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Other education · since 2013
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2001
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Teelt van druiven · Gavere · since 2018
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2018
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Vermogensbeheer · Zoersel · since 2016
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Market research and public opinion polling · since 2020
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Joinery installation · since 2022
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Other amusement and recreation activities · since 2022
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Name of an establishment of Smet Janssens · Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · Kruisem · since 2009
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Specialised image, lighting and sound technical services · since 2005
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Vervaardiging van consumentenelektronica · Leopoldsburg · since 2024
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Ranst · since 1990
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since 1999
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since 1982
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Advertising agencies · since 2004
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Other specialised construction activities · Lokeren · since 2006
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Wholesale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · Tongeren-Borgloon · since 1979
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Joinery installation · Retie · since 1981
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Meise · since 1986
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Lummen · since 1989
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Afvalwaterafvoer · Puurs-Sint-Amands · since 1998
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Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery · since 1977
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Manufacture of imitation jewellery and related articles · since 2018
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Mixed farming · since 2021
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Kippenkwekerijen · Kasterlee · since 2009
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General medical practice · Schilde · since 2012
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Raising of dairy cattle · Holsbeek · since 2012
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Raising of dairy cattle · Kasterlee · since 2004
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2006
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Mixed farming · since 2026
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Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · Putte · since 2026
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Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers · Zemst · since 2026
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Other retail sale of food · since 2026
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Sports and recreation education · since 2021
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since 2023
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2023
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Psychology services · Bornem · since 2011
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Office administrative and support services · since 2025
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since 2026
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Abbreviation of SMET - BORING · Construction of roads and motorways · Dessel · since 1976
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Hotels and similar accommodation · Brussel · since 1988
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Abbreviation of SMET GROUP OVERSEAS · Other specialised construction activities · Dessel · since 1992
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Andere afvalverwijdering · Waasmunster · since 1993
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Freight transport by road · Sint-Niklaas · since 1999
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Abbreviation of SMET GWT EUROPE · Bouw van civieltechnische werken voor vloeistoffen, n.e.g. · Dessel · since 2017
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Forging of metal · since 2019
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Site preparation · since 2022
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Lokeren · since 2023
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Abbreviation of SMET INTERIEUR EN BOUW · Joinery installation · Zulte · since 2004
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Other building finishing work · since 2006
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Name of an establishment of Smet UK Ltd · Groothandel in overige bouwmaterialen · Oxted · since 2007
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Productie van aluminium · Anderlues · since 2024
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Dessel · since 1968