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.
“ZEM”
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
7 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Wholesale of electrical household appliances and audio-video equipment · Antwerpen · since 1989
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Other business support services · Oud-Heverlee · since 2014
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Promotion and organisation of arts and performing arts events · since 2014
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Evergem · since 2019
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2025
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Business and other management consultancy · Veurne · since 2024
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since 2021
Names that resemble it 14 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Wholesale of information and communication equipment · Ukkel · since 1999
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Langemark-Poelkapelle · since 2001
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Name of an establishment of Algemene Schilder- en Decoratiewerken Zemco · Painting of buildings · Antwerpen · since 1982
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Gavere · since 2012
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Name of an establishment of ROCCA · Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · Genk · since 2017
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Watermaal-Bosvoorde · since 2021
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Agents in the wholesale of furniture, household goods and hardware · since 2023
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2011
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Non-scheduled passenger transport by road · Antwerpen · since 2025
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Abbreviation of ALIZEPHYR · Business and other management consultancy · Anderlecht · since 2003
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Abbreviation of ZONDAG SAMEN · Sint-Jans-Molenbeek · since 2012
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Gent · since 2001
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Abbreviation of Zua Mangwana · Groothandel in uurwerken en sieraden · Villers-la-Ville · since 1996
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Demolition · Gent · since 2018