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Jager NV
Naamloze Venootschap
Traded asJAG
IndustryAutomotive
FoundedTraditional
(25 April 1919; 105 years ago (1919-04-25))
Post-WW2
(1 January 1949; 75 years ago (1949-01-01))
FounderBart de Jager
Headquarters
Bijsterhuizen
,
Lindenholt
Number of locations
11 production facilities in 9 countries
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Erik de Jager, Chairman of the Board of Management
  • Damian de Groot, Head of Design
  • David van Grens, Head of Technical Development
ProductsLuxury vehicles
Production output
Decrease 1,871,386
RevenueDecrease €59.248&
Decrease €3.529 billion (2018)
Increase €3.463 billion (2018)
Total assetsIncrease €65.598 billion (2018)
Total equityIncrease €29.698 billion (2018)
OwnerRijksautowerken Group (80%)
Number of employees
91,674 (2018)
Websitehttp://www.jager.lin/en/


Jager (pronounced: /jɑːɡɜːr/), officially Jager NV, is a Lindian car manufacturer with its headquarters in Bijsterhuizen, Brusseland. The company was founded in 1919 by Bart de Jager, who is also the namesake of the company. Jager in Dutch means hunter. Jager is a member of the Rijksautowerken Group, with the parent company owning up to eighty percent of the company's shares.

The company's roots trace back to being the result of Bart de Jager's motorcar racing hobby, which had steadily been gaining popularity since the end of the First World War. Jager was the most active in the motor car races that took place in the Dorninger Ring, where his cars saw great successes. After pressure from his investors, Jager also started with the production of cars suitable for driving in traffic.

After the Second World War the company was nationalised and put under the Rijksautowerken company. While many Lindian car manufacturers that were active before the war were directly consumed by the Rijksautowerken brand, Jager survived as it picked up production in Capsland, where the company had bought a workshop to continue producing spare parts for existing models during the war. In 1949, together with Rijksautowerken both companies formed the Rijksautowerken Group, which later also included the Umbrelliet Grogów brand of automobiles and Lindian lorry and bus manufacturer DAME.

Today the brand is known for designing, engineering, producing and marketing luxury vehicles. With a total of 1.9 million cars sold under the Jager marque in 2017, it is one of the largest car manufacturers in the world.

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