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
3 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Ukkel · since 2005
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Activities of head offices · Sivry-Rance · since 2020
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Name of an establishment of GEMIVER · Other non-specialised retail sale · Sint-Truiden · since 2011
Names that resemble it 30 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Retail sale of lighting equipment · Roeselare · since 1983
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Groothandel in vis en schaal- en weekdieren
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Vermogensbeheer · Ukkel · since 2017
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Manufacture of dining room, living room, bedroom and bathroom furniture · Lommel · since 2011
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Support activities for crop production · Zedelgem · since 2024
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Name of an establishment of PANE · Full-service restaurants · Zoersel · since 2024
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Other activities auxiliary to financial services, excluding insurance and pension funding · Sint-Truiden · since 2025
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Name of an establishment of AMED · Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Kortrijk · since 2025
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since 1971
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Freight transport by road · since 1979
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Joinery installation · since 2018
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since 2018
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Wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products · Lummen · since 1997
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Knokke-Heist · since 2018
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MAASTRICHT · since 2007
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Activities of holding companies · Ukkel · since 2023
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Retail sale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · Antwerpen · since 2024
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since 1968
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Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers · since 1979
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Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · since 2009
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Hotels and similar accommodation · Brecht · since 1973
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Abbreviation of Vrije Eeklose Radio Omroep · Advertising agencies · Eeklo · since 1982
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Other retail sale of new goods · Wommelgem · since 2001
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Business and other management consultancy · Kluisbergen · since 2017
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Schilde · since 2019
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2023
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Construction of roads and motorways · since 2004
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Activities of holding companies · Zele · since 2005
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Sint-Lievens-Houtem · since 1982
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Waregem · since 2021