What is “GmbH & Co. KG”?

Full meaning & translation

The full form is Kommanditgesellschaft, a German-language term. It translates literally as “Limited partnership company.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as cokg, ges mbh co kg, ges mbh cokg, gesell schaft mbh co kg.

Where it's used

GmbH & Co. KG appears in company names registered in the following 3 jurisdictions:

What it tells you about the company

Equivalent forms around the world

These are the closest structural equivalents to GmbH & Co. KG in other jurisdictions — same entity category, different national law.

Normalizing “GmbH & Co. KG” in your data

When matching or deduplicating company records, the legal suffix is noise — “Acme GmbH & Co. KG” and “Acme” should resolve to the same entity. One API call strips it and returns a stable canonical form:

curl -X POST https://api.ambect.com/v1/normalize/company \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AMBECT_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "Acme GmbH & Co. KG", "country": "at"}'

{
  "data": {
    "canonical": "acme gmbh co kg",
    "legal_type": null,
    "tokens": [
      "acme",
      "gmbh",
      "co",
      "kg"
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "pipeline": [
      "lowercase",
      "legal_suffix"
    ],
    "confidence": 0.99
  }
}

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