National Business Register - www.anewbusiness.co.uk

What is it and why use it?

No new business is the same, but there are certain things every budding entrepreneur must do to get their venture off the ground. They must choose a name that doesn’t already exist, register it, and for most, they must also register a logo or trademark and website domain name.

It needn’t be a complicated process, but there a few issues to consider first. How, for instance, do you check that nobody has already started a business under the name you’ve selected?

There are also plenty of companies that will offer to help you with theses processes, but there’s only one that offers it all under one roof and that will only charge for the actual registration fees that you incur.

Established in 1984, the National Business Register is the UK’s only service that offers free information, advice and support in setting up a new business, new company, trademark or brand, and domain name.

At the National Business Register website – www.anewbusiness.co.uk - you can search to ensure that your proposed trading name is unique and does not run the risk of a passing off (copying) claim. You can then register that business name certain that it is unique and that it meets all statutory requirements.

The National Business Register will also assist you to form all types of UK and offshore companies and order other corporate services quickly and easily

The registration of words, initials, logos, monograms, shapes or signatures numerals and designs as trade or service marks is also available, provides effective protection against imitators and prevents those who are seeking new marks from adopting identical or confusingly similar marks.

If you’re setting up a website as part or as the basis of your business, the National Business Register can halp you select and register a domain name - www.startups.co.uk or www.anewbusiness.co.uk – for instance.

How much does it cost?

The National Business Register is free to use and contains all the information you need to action all of the above services. You only pay for the registrations that you decide to make and all prices are clearly displayed at the point of selection.

Where do I go for more information?

www.anewbusiness.co.uk

Startups.co.uk comment:

"For a transparent value-for-money startup service that you can trust, use the National Business Register."