Jager

Jager NV

Jager head office in Bijsterhuizen
Type	Naamloze Venootschap
Traded as	JAG
Industry	Automotive
Founded	Traditional (25 April 1919 (1919-04-25)) Post-WW2 (1 January 1949 (1949-01-01))
Founder	Bart 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
Products	Luxury vehicles
Production output	1,871,386
Revenue	€59.248&
Operating income	€3.529 billion (2018)
Net income	€3.463 billion (2018)
Total assets	€65.598 billion (2018)
Total equity	€29.698 billion (2018)
Owner	Rijksautowerken Group (80%)
Number of employees	91,674 (2018)
Website	http://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.