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.
“Ward Devos”
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
17 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Landscape service activities · Dilbeek · since 2022
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Buying and selling of own real estate · Peer · since 1974
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Business and other management consultancy · Bierbeek · since 2019
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Plastering work · since 2024
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Tielt · since 2024
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Tourcoing · since 1979
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Groothandel in vloer- en wandtegels · Kortrijk · since 1997
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Sint-Joost-ten-Node · since 1999
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 1992
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Joinery installation · Anzegem · since 2009
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Artisanal bread and fresh pastry making · Houthulst · since 2004
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Name of an establishment of MAISON DEVOS · Artisanal bread and fresh pastry making · Tournai · since 2004
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Performing arts by independent artists · since 2006
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Joinery installation · Poperinge · since 2007
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Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · since 2007
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Site preparation · since 2024
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Performing arts by artistic ensembles · Antwerpen · since 2000
Names that resemble it 16 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Business and other management consultancy · Destelbergen · since 2008
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Other printing · since 2020
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Dental practice · Lichtervelde · since 2025
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Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Merchtem · since 1965
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Alveringem · since 1994
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Business and other management consultancy · Hove · since 1998
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Antwerpen · since 2013
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Vervaardiging van bereide maaltijden en schotels · since 1984
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Mixed farming · since 2001
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Manufacture of beer · since 1995
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Joinery installation · since 1983
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Support activities for crop production · since 2010
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General electrical installation work · since 2011
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Retail sale of footwear · since 1984
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Full-service restaurants · Bornem · since 2003
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Full-service restaurants · Anzegem · since 2004