06/03/2026
If you run marketing for a mid-market industrial manufacturer, here's a stat worth sitting with.
30% of industrial buyers in our Q1 2026 Industrial Buyer Pulse say they're planning to shift more spend to regional suppliers. That spend is moving. The question is who's ready to receive it.
Your competitors will respond to the US-Iran conflict the way they always do. A new whitepaper, webinar series or email newsletter about their own resilience. Very little of it will reach a buyer in time to matter.
That leaves a window of opportunity for manufacturers willing to do the underlying work. The companies that can move quickly, without legacy systems or committee-driven web governance slowing them down, can make resilience visible where it matters: at the product level. A clean lead-time feed. Stock data the buyer can verify. Origin information published, not buried.
Read the full piece on the mid-market opportunity in industrial buying right now: https://content.kulapartners.com/geopolitical-resilience-is-a-ux-problem