Barbara Thau
Barbara Thau is 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. She is currently a contributing retail writer for Forbes.com, for which she writes the Minding The Stores column. Her work has appeared in CNBC, Fortune, The New York Daily News, among other media outlets. Barbara also works 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. This year, Barbara was named to The List of People Shaping Retail’s Future by The National Retail Federation, which awarded her the 2018 Influencer Award.
