Jay Jacobowitz

About

Jay Jacobowitz is president and founder, in 1998, of Retail Insights , a professional consulting service providing strategic guidance to the natural products industry, and is creator of Natural Insights for Well Being , a comprehensive consumer marketing service designed exclusively for independent natural products retailers. Retail Insights is an industry source for intelligence on the natural and organic retail space, and is cited by industry trade journals including The Wall Street Journal, Nutrition Business Journal, Natural Foods Merchandiser, and Supermarket News, among others. For the ninth year, in March 2019, WholeFoods Magazine utilized Retail Insights’ “Retail Universe for Premium Natural, Organic Food, Supplement and Personal Care Sales,” as the definitive benchmark for the size and scope of the retail natural products industry. Retail Insights maintains a database tracking over 114,000 U.S. retail stores in eight channels selling premium natural organic products, including all major industry players, and develops a proprietary annual national index for real-estate potential for natural products demand for the strategic benefit of its clients. Consulting: Retail Insights provides a complete range of consulting services to owners of independent natural products retail stores, from strategic guidance such as store trade area location, store siting, size, and product mix; business valuation for estate planning, partnership or equity subdivision, or for the sale, merger or acquisition of business assets; and succession planning. Retail Insights also provides operational guidance on lease negotiations, wholesale vendor relationships, profit margin structure, workforce management, merchandising, and the efficient use of space.