Life is full of changes: often pointless or cosmetic, sometimes substantial, reflecting an evolving world order. In that latter vein, we’ve made a substantial change to more accurately reflect for you the growing world of global investment. investBritain and Invest in Success titles have served both sides of the UK’s inward investment community for nearly a decade, supplying knowledge to support sound UK investment decisions.

But inward investment and its place in the broader economic picture evolves so that coverage of the subject must similarly develop.

However, the traditional geographic focus on where to invest is increasingly superseded by a focus upon specific sectors and supply chains with companies seeking the best global, strategic market position, communication and transport links, and availability of skill sets for their business. Business leaders are less concerned exactly where these elements are located - as long as their locations of activity are politically and economically stable, with a comparatively responsible corporate culture, and satisfy the specific requirements of their organisation.

At EMP Media B2B, we believe the time is right for a title reflecting this larger and more complex global investment picture. As a result we have launching FDIMatters, a title delivering knowledge and information that matters to foreign direct investment decision-makers around the world.

FDIMatters will, of course, be available in both paper and online formats through its new website, www.fdimatters.com, where you’ll be able to find information to support global investment decisions as investBritain and Invest in Success have supported UK investment decisions in the past (and where you’ll also be able to download our pilot issue of FDIMatters. And, in the same way that UK inward investment is now best seen in the broader context of global foreign direct investment, we will be transferring content from investBritain website into the new FDIMatters site so that you, the reader and investor, only have to go to one place to find the information you’ll need whether you are making or inviting investment.

Invest in Success paper and digital publications will continue to reflect specific UK regional opportunities including, later in 2011, an issue covering London & the Thames Gateway for 2012, the year of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games. But for all of your online investment information, the place to go to in future will be www.fdimatters.com where everything from FDIMatters and Invest in Success will be available, as always, at the touch of a button.