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Barbara Thau

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  • Editorial Director, Features, CO
New York
As seen in: CO, UOL, Forbes, Aol, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Flipboard, Yahoo, The Real Deal, Retail Dive, NewsBreak and
Editorial Director, Features, CO— @growwithco by @uschamber Biz reporter/editor spec. in retail, consumer trends, ex-Forbes Minding the Stores writer.
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I'm a longtime reporter/editor specializing in the retail sector and the consumer economy, with coverage extending to business industries ranging from fashion, beauty and home to hospitality and real estate.

My work can currently be found on Forbes.com, for which I write the Minding The Stores retail column, and has appeared in CNBC, Fortune, The New York Daily News, among other media outlets.

I also work as a content writer/editor, producing thought-leadership pieces, reports, white papers, blogs and e-books on a cross section of business industries for corporate clients such as Microsoft, Zebra Technologies, and IBM.

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