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Barbara Thau

SENIOR EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, FEATURES

About Barbara

Barbara is a longtime business reporter and editor specializing in the retail and consumer sectors, whose coverage includes fashion, food, beauty, technology and more. Her coverage at consumer publications like Forbes, CNBC and AOL.com and trade outlets such as Home Furnishings News ranges from market trend analysis features to CEO profiles of the nation’s biggest public companies, as well as buzzy new disruptors. Thau aims for CO—'s features to demystify the business landscape for the business community, with exclusive stories that keep readers ahead of the trends, identify emerging opportunities and offer actionable insights for growth.

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3 Pandemic-Fueled Commerce Trends
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Scaling Startups Share Their Winning Customer Retention Strategies
Growing brands Stojo drinkware, State Bags and Yasso frozen treats reveal insider, best practices that drive repeat business and breed shopper loyalty.
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How a New Wave of DTC Startups Are Tapping Big Retail to Scale Growth
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Interview With Celebrity Hairstylist Ted Gibson on the Highs and Lows of Growing a Multimillion-Dollar Beauty Business
The beauty insider shares key takeaways from the game-changing moments that both catapulted and challenged his business, with actionable insights for small businesses to legacy brands.
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How Brands Turned Pandemic-Fueled Trends Into New Business
Startups to big legacy brands are offering consumers more buy now, pay later buying options to delivery-only dining concepts to uncork new revenue streams.
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Experts Discuss Pandemic-Spurred Business Opportunities
Consumers are spending big dollars at neighborhood stores, as brands bond with customers via virtual events — business boons that would have been inconceivable pre-pandemic.
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Pandemic Consumer Trends: Hyper-Local Commerce & Small Brands
The crisis whet consumers’ appetite for local stores, on-demand dining concepts and Instagram-discovered startup brands — and marketers are heeding their call.
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Experts Discuss Emerging Startups Ripe for Long-Term Growth
How disruptors in retail and real estate to gaming and branding are serving a shifting consumer economy and leaning into business trends that are poised to stick.
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How 3 Startups Landed Distribution at National Retail Chains
A behind-the-scenes look at how organic baby food brand Raised Real, beauty retailer Luxie and Café Femenino Coffee broke into big retail.
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How These 3 Brands Turned Pandemic-Prompted Innovation Into Sales
Executives from Clorox, Thinx and Zenni Optical share how the crisis forced product launches and strategic pivots poised to inform business long-term.
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