Choosing a company title
2 April 2012
Q: I’ve been asked to look at choosing a new name for my company. Is there anything I should be aware of?
A: Ken Burnett, practice development officer at CIPS, writes: If you are thinking about changing the name of your company, you need to know something about the Business Names Act 1985, which places a number of legally enforceable restrictions on what names may be used.
Under the act, a business name may be defined as a name used by any person,...