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
20 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Vervaardiging van radiatoren, stoomketels en ketels voor centrale verwarming · Courcelles · since 1978
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General electrical installation work · Timisoara · since 2006
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Antwerpen · since 2000
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Other business support services · Tielt · since 2005
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Retail sale of newspapers and periodicals · Olen · since 1980
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Roofing work · Tremelo · since 1990
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Other printing · Balen · since 1992
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Brugge · since 1995
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Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Laarne · since 1995
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Name of an establishment of VERDONCK VEURNE BISCUITERIE · Vervaardiging van cement · Jabbeke · since 1997
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Abbreviation of A. VERDONCK · General construction of residential buildings · since 2014
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Groothandel in reinigingsmiddelen · since 1988
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Full-service restaurants · since 1996
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Installation of electric heating, air conditioning, cooling and ventilation · since 2023
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Activities of holding companies · Aalter · since 2012
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Translation services · since 2004
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Name of an establishment of VERDONCK DESSERTS · Vervaardiging van roomijs en ander consumptie-ijs · Veurne · since 2005
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Deinze · since 2024
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Business and other management consultancy · Tielt · since 1983
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Lievegem · since 1989
Names that resemble it 43 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Business and other management consultancy · Rijkevorsel · since 2025
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Activities of building architects · since 2016
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2014
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Sports and recreation education · since 2016
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Other education · since 2019
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Retail sale of beverages, general range · Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe · since 2009
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Computer programming · Ichtegem · since 2023
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Performing arts by artistic ensembles · Hamme (Vl.) · since 2024
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Post-production of films, video and television programmes · since 2026
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General maintenance and repair of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2026
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Forging of metal · since 2014
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since 1999
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Other business support services · Antwerpen · since 2015
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Translation services · since 2015
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since 1998
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Mixed farming · since 1994
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 1995
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Activities of building architects · since 1987
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Support activities for crop production · since 2020
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since 2021
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Forging of metal · since 1999
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 1987
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Other personal services · since 2018
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Poperinge · since 2009
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Physiotherapy · since 2000
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Activities of lawyers · since 2004
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since 2010
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Raising of other cattle and buffaloes · since 2012
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Landscape service activities · since 2026
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since 2012
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Verhuur en lease van landbouwmachines en -werktuigen · since 2002
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2007
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 2007
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Graphic design and visual communication · since 2025
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General maintenance and repair of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2025
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Activiteiten van bejaardenzorg aan huis, muv (thuis)verpleging · since 2025
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Insurance agents and brokers · Sint-Niklaas · since 1996
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Exploitatie van recreatiedomeinen · Ieper · since 1998
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Landscape service activities · Zemst · since 1998
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Raising of dairy cattle · since 1991
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2002
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Name of an establishment of MONDEGO II · Full-service restaurants · Opwijk · since 2004
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Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · since 2012