Adrian Marsanu, former ZF and Business Standard, to lead a new business news portal

Intact Group will launch, through its division Intact Interactive, a business portal that will be managed by Adrian Marsanu, that will assume the position of Chief Editor and that is the former chief of Business Standard, closed in December 2009, as Subiectiv.ro and Reportervirtual.ro wrote.

The name of the site is not known for the moment, but it is poised to be launched in the second half of the year and has as a mission to consolidate the economic publishing pool of Intact media trust.

According to Subiectiv.ro, the main competitors are most likely to be money.ro (Realitatea-Caţavencu), incont.ro (ProTV), but also wall-street.ro (InternetCorp) and DailyBusiness.ro (AdEvolution), along with other print and online publications.

Mirsanu was deputy editor in chief at Ziarul Financiar and editor in chief at Business Standard (2007-2009).