Territory intel: Daytona Beach.

Health care providers, retailers, contractors and manufacturers in Daytona Beach, Ormond Beach, Deltona and the rest of Volusia and Flagler counties are the focus of our Salesforce consulting here. Daytona Beach is one of our focus markets.

What buyers here usually run into

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   Dealer and distributor channels

   Manufacturers that sell through dealers commonly struggle to share leads, orders and warranty claims with them. A partner portal gives dealers and the factory the same view of each customer.

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   Crews spread across a county

   Construction and installation businesses often dispatch by phone and whiteboard. Mobile work orders with photos, checklists and cost tracking against the estimate show which jobs make money.

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   Research partners beside customers

   Aviation and life-sciences organizations frequently mix grants, industry partners, startups and paying customers. Salesforce needs separate pipelines for each so partnership activity does not distort revenue forecasts.

Budget, team and partner questions

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, GDP by county (CAGDP2), 2024, summed to the metro area; private sectors only, excluding real estate and government. “At least” marks sectors where BEA suppresses some county figures.

Regional target sectors named by local economic development groups: Aviation & Aerospace, Advanced Manufacturing, Headquarters, Life Sciences, Logistics & Distribution, Finance and Insurance, Information Technology, Professional Services.

In the order we lead with them here, from the industries above.

Where AI helps Daytona Beach service businesses

Daytona Beach's economy is service-heavy: health care at 10.8% of 2024 metro GDP, retail at 9.9%, construction at 6.8%, and accommodation and food services at 5.0%. Hospitality operators and retailers field the same booking, return, and order questions again and again, which suits grounded self-service. Home builders and contractors can use AI to summarize warranty requests and assign them to the correct trade. Aviation and aerospace firms, a regional target, may prefer document extraction for maintenance or training records. Each of these relies on up-to-date content and accurate customer records. Agents should hand off smoothly to staff when a question falls outside what they can answer reliably.

• Booking and return self-service
• Builder warranty request routing
• Maintenance record document extraction

Across Volusia and Flagler counties, a first Salesforce build usually has to serve very different kinds of work in one org: patient referrals at a care provider, research partners at an aviation company, or bids and crews at a contractor. We spend discovery drawing the records each team handles and how they relate, then configure in a sandbox, load cleaned data and release in phases. The first phase covers the process that hurts most today, and each later phase goes live on its own.

By industry in Daytona Beach

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   Health care and social assistance

   Care providers form the metro's biggest private sector, near 10.8% of 2024 GDP, ahead of retail at 9.9%. For a clinic network or home-care agency here, the opening release tends to be whatever moves a referral from fax or phone into a tracked queue. We fix the boundary with the clinical record before building, design queues by service line, and configure consent capture so outreach teams only contact people who have agreed to hear from them.

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   Aviation & Aerospace

   Aviation and aerospace heads Team Volusia EDC's target list, and the aeronautical university's research park adds a startup incubator and engineering facilities to the county. Companies near that ecosystem implement Salesforce to keep customers, suppliers, research collaborators and program milestones apart. We model programs as their own records rather than stretching opportunities to fit them, and we agree early which technical or export-sensitive details must never be stored in the CRM at all.

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   Construction

   Builders and trade contractors add roughly 6.8% of metro GDP. For them, implementation means the estimate, the job and the crew schedule living on one connected set of records, so a won bid becomes a job without re-keying. Field Service handles dispatch and mobile checklists for installers working across the county, and job costs roll up against the original estimate. We configure the bid pipeline first, since every later report depends on it being right.

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Integration projects in the Daytona Beach area usually connect Salesforce to one operational system that already works: an ERP holding orders and serial numbers, a warehouse system tracking shipments, or an agency management platform with policies. We map which system owns each field, pick a pattern that matches how current the data must be, and build error handling so failures are noticed. Where a manufacturer sells through dealers, we also connect a partner portal so dealers see the same order and warranty status as your staff.

By industry in Daytona Beach

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   Manufacturing

   Manufacturing contributes about 5.7% of 2024 metro GDP, and Team Volusia EDC is courting more of it through its advanced manufacturing and aviation and aerospace targets. For a manufacturer selling through dealers, integration carries configured orders, hull or serial numbers and warranty registrations between ERP and Salesforce. Dealers then log service claims through Experience Cloud, the factory sees them against the right unit, and parts and credits flow back to ERP without anyone keying them twice.

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   Logistics & Distribution

   Team Volusia EDC singles out logistics and distribution for recruitment. Distributors and warehouse operators field constant questions about where an order is, and the answer usually lives in a warehouse or transportation system rather than in Salesforce. Integration surfaces shipment status, delivery exceptions and proof of delivery on the account and the case, so customer service can answer on the first call and sales can see which customers keep hitting delays.

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   Finance and Insurance

   For insurance agencies and brokerages, a Team Volusia EDC target sector, the key connection is between Salesforce and the agency management system that holds policies, premiums and carriers. We sync policy summaries and renewal dates into Financial Services Cloud or Sales Cloud, keep the agency system as the record of truth for coverage details, and send service requests back as tasks. Producers then plan renewals from one screen instead of two.

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Most optimization requests we see from Daytona Beach organizations come a few years after launch. The original design fit the business at the time, but new locations, services and staff have been added without anyone revisiting it. We watch people work, review usage data and automation, and interview the managers who read reports. The fixes are usually practical: fewer required fields, one Flow per object instead of several overlapping tools, list views that match daily jobs, and a handful of dashboards built on agreed definitions.

By industry in Daytona Beach

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   Accommodation and food services

   Hotels, resorts and restaurant groups make up close to 5% of the metro's 2024 GDP. Those that use Salesforce for group sales, events or guest service often find it drifted into a contact list with a few reports attached. Optimization rebuilds the group-booking pipeline so sales managers can see tentative and confirmed business at a glance, links guest complaints to the right property, and automates the follow-up that used to depend on someone remembering.

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   Health care and social assistance

   Care organizations in the county often expanded Salesforce one program at a time, and each program built its own queues, statuses and reports. Staff moving between programs relearn the system each time, and leaders cannot compare waiting times from one program to the next. We standardize the shared steps, keep program-specific fields where they are truly needed, clean up duplicate patient and referrer records, and rebuild reporting so every program is measured the same way.

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   Professional Services

   Professional services appear on Team Volusia EDC's industries page, covering accounting, legal, engineering and consulting firms. In firms like these, partners often stop using Salesforce because entering activities takes longer than it saves. Optimization trims page layouts, adds email and calendar capture so activity logs itself, and gives each partner a single view of their clients and open work. Time saved for billable staff is the measure that decides whether the changes stick.

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Health checks for Daytona Beach organizations often begin with a practical worry: a portal, an integration or a new AI feature is planned, and nobody is sure what the org currently exposes. We review profiles, permission sets, sharing, guest and portal users, connected apps and integration accounts, then look at automation, custom code, data quality and adoption. Every finding gets a risk rating and an effort estimate, and the report ends with an ordered list of fixes your team or ours can start on straight away.

By industry in Daytona Beach

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   Life Sciences

   Team Volusia EDC wants more life-sciences employers in the county. Smaller device, diagnostics and research companies often set up Salesforce quickly and add regulated processes later, such as complaint handling or distributor oversight. A health check shows whether complaint records carry field history, whether distributors or reps can see more than their territory, and which automations touch records that quality staff may later have to defend in an inspection or partner audit.

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   Health care and social assistance

   Hospitals and care agencies here hold protected health information in Salesforce for referrals, outreach and scheduling. We test whether each role sees only what it needs, whether sensitive fields are encrypted, whether integration users pull more than their purpose requires, and whether portal or guest access exposes anything unintended. Findings are ranked by privacy risk, so the compliance office can act on the most serious ones before a planned audit or AI pilot.

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   Finance and Insurance

   Insurance agencies and financial firms, targeted by Team Volusia EDC, keep policyholder, claims and financial details in Salesforce alongside sales activity. The review checks whether producers can see books that are not theirs, whether admins have been granted broader rights than needed, how long sensitive data is kept, and which exports or reports could leak customer information. We note which findings a carrier or examiner would most likely ask about.

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Managed services for Daytona Beach companies usually replaces a part-time arrangement: an office manager or IT generalist who inherited Salesforce and handles it between other duties. We take over the request queue, run each Salesforce release through a sandbox before your users see it, and keep a prioritized backlog of enhancements and technical debt that we review with you on a regular schedule. Admins, Flow builders, developers and an architect are available as each request needs them, so you are not hiring for skills used occasionally.

By industry in Daytona Beach

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   Finance and Insurance

   Finance and insurance is one of Team Volusia EDC's target industries, and an insurance brokerage is among the regional companies the EDC names. Agencies and brokerages running Salesforce need renewal automation, producer book security and agency-system syncs kept working as carriers and products change. A managed team monitors those renewal jobs, adjusts sharing when producers join or leave, and checks each Salesforce release against the policy and commission objects your staff rely on.

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   Retail trade

   Among the metro's private sectors, retail sits second at near 9.9% of 2024 GDP, less than a point behind health care. Retailers using Salesforce for loyalty, customer service or promotions produce a steady stream of small requests: a new campaign audience, a changed case category, a store added to a territory. Managed services clears those promptly, keeps marketing consent data accurate and stops one-off fixes from piling up into technical debt.

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   Information Technology

   Information technology appears among Team Volusia EDC's targets, and young firms from the aeronautical university's incubator are part of the local mix. Small software and IT service companies often need Salesforce changes every sprint, such as new product lines, subscription fields or partner deal registration, without the budget for a full-time admin. A managed arrangement gives them configuration, Flow and integration help on demand, with a release log so their own engineers know what changed.

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Two kinds of Daytona Beach migration show up most often. Local contractors and retailers are leaving spreadsheets, accounting-system contacts or a basic CRM they outgrew. Companies setting up headquarters or regional operations in the county often arrive with a legacy CRM from elsewhere that needs cleaning before anyone relies on it. In both cases we inventory the sources, agree what the Salesforce record should hold, deduplicate and standardize in staging, then rehearse the load in a sandbox before a short, planned cutover.

By industry in Daytona Beach

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   Headquarters

   Team Volusia EDC lists headquarters operations among its target industries. A company moving head-office functions to the county often brings a CRM that several divisions customized separately. Before migrating, we decide which divisional fields and processes survive, retire the rest, and map everything to a single model. Relocation is a natural moment to shed years of clutter, so the new office starts with clean data rather than an exact copy of the old one.

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   Construction

   Contractors across the county often run bids and jobs from spreadsheets, an estimating tool and the accounting system. Migrating such a firm means turning scattered customer names, project addresses and bid histories into accounts, sites and opportunities that link together. We standardize addresses, match customers who appear under several spellings, and bring over enough past bids to show win rates by job type without importing every abandoned estimate or draft.

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   Retail trade

   Retailers moving customer data into Salesforce usually pull from a point-of-sale system, an email platform and a loyalty list that do not agree with one another. Migration merges those into one customer record, carries email consent with its source and date, and keeps purchase summaries rather than every transaction line. Marketing can then segment on real buying behavior from the first campaign after cutover, without a separate list to reconcile by hand.

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Rescue work in Daytona Beach usually involves smaller organizations where one champion drove the Salesforce project and then left, or where a low-cost build went live without the processes it promised. Users drifted back to spreadsheets and paper, and leaders are unsure whether to push on or start again. We assess the org against what the business needs now, fix the problems that stop daily work, and decide piece by piece what to keep. Then we finish the essential scope in phases and retrain the people who gave up on it.

By industry in Daytona Beach

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   Advanced Manufacturing

   Advanced manufacturing is a Team Volusia EDC target, and manufacturers' stalled projects often share a pattern: quotes and orders were meant to flow to ERP, but the integration was never finished. Reps quote in Salesforce, then re-enter orders elsewhere, and trust erodes. Recovery reconciles the product catalog and account records between systems, completes or rebuilds the integration, and proves it against real orders before asking reps to rely on it again.

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   Construction

   Contractors sometimes buy Salesforce and Field Service together, then find the mobile app confusing and the scheduling rules incomplete. Crews go back to phone calls and the office to whiteboards. We simplify the technician app to the fields that matter on site, set territories and skills correctly, and relaunch dispatch with one crew or region first. Once that group is working reliably, the rest of the field team follows with the same training.

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   Health care and social assistance

   Some care providers in the county now run two intake processes at once: the Salesforce one leadership bought and the fax-and-spreadsheet routine staff never gave up. In recovery we find where the paper or fax process still runs alongside Salesforce, remove the duplicate work, and fix permission problems that forced workarounds. Relaunch happens program by program with hands-on training, so coordinators see that the new process is faster than the one they returned to.

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Health organizations in the Daytona Beach area work in a competitive market, with two large hospital systems and many independent practices. Salesforce helps them understand and strengthen relationships: which physicians refer where, how quickly patients reach an appointment, and whether follow-up happens after discharge. We typically combine Service Cloud for access centers, Marketing Cloud for consent-based outreach and Experience Cloud for patient or referring-provider portals, adding Agentforce for routine questions once workflows and data are dependable.

No private industry contributes more to the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach economy than health care and social assistance, which accounted for 10.8% of 2024 GDP in Bureau of Economic Analysis data, ahead of retail trade. Team Volusia EDC includes life sciences among its target industries, alongside aviation, advanced manufacturing and information technology. Because the metro spans Volusia and Flagler counties, with population centers both on the coast and inland around Deltona, access, travel distance and coordination across many locations are practical concerns for providers.

Use cases to open with

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   Physician relations management

   Liaisons responsible for growing referrals need to know which practices send patients, which have drifted and why. Salesforce can combine visit notes, referral volumes from scheduling data and open issues raised by each office. Leaders then direct liaison time toward practices where service problems, not competition, are causing referrals to slip, and track whether fixes bring the volume back over the following quarter.

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   Centralized patient access

   When patients call to schedule, reschedule or ask about bills, a central access team needs one screen. Service Cloud with omni-channel routing, a knowledge base and integration to scheduling systems shortens calls and keeps answers consistent across locations. Supervisors get real queue and abandonment data instead of anecdotes about hold times, and can staff to the patterns they see. Patients who prefer text or online messaging can be served through the same console.

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   Follow-up after hospital discharge

   Care teams working to reduce avoidable readmissions can use Salesforce to assign follow-up calls after discharge, track medication questions and escalate concerns to a nurse. Automated reminders and an Agentforce assistant can handle routine confirmations, leaving nurses and care coordinators time for patients whose answers suggest they need attention. Reports show completion rates by unit so managers can close gaps.

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Manufacturing in the Daytona Beach area is smaller than health care or retail but more specialized: marine builders, aviation and aerospace suppliers and precision shops. Salesforce fits when it follows how each sells. Marine companies need dealer orders, build slots and warranty claims connected; aviation suppliers need engineering-led opportunities and quality documentation; job shops need faster, accurate quotes. We usually start with Sales Cloud and an Experience Cloud dealer or partner portal, then add Service Cloud or Field Service for aftersales work.

In Bureau of Economic Analysis data, manufacturing supplied 5.7% of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metro's 2024 GDP, fourth among private sectors after health care, retail and construction. Team Volusia EDC targets aviation and aerospace, advanced manufacturing and logistics and distribution, among others. An aeronautical university's research park in Daytona Beach adds an applied aviation and engineering research hangar, a low-speed wind tunnel and a startup incubator to that mix. Local manufacturers therefore range from established marine brands to early-stage aerospace ventures still proving their technology.

Use cases to open with

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   Dealer orders and build slots

   Boat builders commonly allocate production slots to dealers and confirm options well ahead of delivery. Salesforce can manage dealer orders, option selections and build schedules, showing each dealer the status of their boats through a portal. Sales managers see allocation by region and model year, and production planning receives firm orders with fewer late changes that disrupt the line. Dealer inventory reports also show which models are aging on lots.

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   Aerospace engineering pursuits

   Aviation suppliers and startups near the research park often win work through technical collaboration before a purchase order exists. Opportunities can track engineering contacts, test milestones, samples and required certifications, with documents attached. That keeps business development and engineering aligned on which programs are real, what the customer still needs to approve, and when revenue can reasonably be forecast. Grant-funded work can be tracked separately so it does not inflate the commercial pipeline.

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   Warranty and owner service

   Aftersales work drives loyalty for marine and aviation products. Service Cloud cases tied to hull or serial numbers, owner records and dealer relationships make warranty claims traceable, and Field Service can schedule factory technicians when dealers need help. Patterns in claims feed back to engineering so recurring defects are fixed at the source rather than repaired one boat at a time. Owners get faster answers, and dealers spend less time chasing claim status.

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Contractors around Daytona Beach range from specialty trades installing insulation, roofing and mechanical systems to builders and general contractors working on homes, warehouses and commercial space. Salesforce works best when it ties selling to scheduling: leads and bids from builders and property owners, estimates that become work orders, and crews dispatched across Volusia and Flagler counties with mobile checklists and photos. We connect it to accounting so every job's actual cost can be compared with its estimate.

Only health care and retail outrank builders and specialty trades in the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach economy; the Bureau of Economic Analysis puts construction at 6.8% of the metro's 2024 GDP. Manufacturing adds 5.7% and accommodation and food services 5%, and both depend on facilities that contractors build, renovate and maintain. Team Volusia EDC does not target construction directly, but its targets, including logistics and distribution, headquarters, advanced manufacturing and aviation, all bring building projects. With population spread from the beach cities to Deltona and into Flagler County, contractors cover long service areas every day.

Use cases to open with

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   Builder account programs

   Specialty trades working for production homebuilders win business community by community, with pricing set by plan and option. Sales Cloud can track each builder account, its active communities, negotiated price sheets and upcoming phases, and CPQ generates plan-level quotes from those sheets. When a builder releases new lots, the trade knows which pricing applies and roughly how many crews the phase will need.

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   Daily dispatch across two counties

   Crews driving between Deltona, the beach cities and Flagler County lose hours to poor routing. Field Service schedules jobs by territory, skill and inspection deadline, optimizes routes, and gives installers mobile work orders with checklists and before-and-after photos. Dispatchers reshuffle the day when a builder's site is not ready, and homeowners or superintendents receive arrival notices automatically instead of calling for them.

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   Callbacks and warranty work

   Warranty callbacks eat margin when nobody tracks them. Service Cloud logs each callback against the original job, crew and materials, routes it for scheduling, and reports repeat issues by installer or product. Builders submit and follow callbacks through a portal, and managers can see whether problems cluster by crew, supplier or community, which points training and purchasing at the real cause.

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Retailers around Daytona Beach sell to two audiences: residents who shop every week and visitors who may buy once a year. Salesforce helps by building one customer profile from store, online and loyalty data, then using it to tailor messages to each group, run service from the same record, and measure what campaigns actually sell. Data 360 (formerly Data Cloud) unifies the sources, Marketing Cloud handles journeys, and Service Cloud gives staff the context to resolve questions quickly.

Shops, grocers and other retailers account for 9.9% of 2024 GDP in the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metro, according to Bureau of Economic Analysis county figures; only health care contributes more. Accommodation and food services add another 5% of GDP, a sign that visitors as well as residents drive local spending on the coast and inland. Team Volusia EDC does not target retail, focusing instead on aviation, manufacturing, logistics, headquarters and similar sectors. The metro spans Volusia and Flagler counties, coastal and inland, so retailers serve distinct communities with different shopping habits.

Use cases to open with

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   Resident and visitor segmentation

   A shopper with a local address and weekly purchases needs different messages than a visitor who bought once during an event weekend. Data 360 (formerly Data Cloud) can combine point-of-sale, e-commerce and loyalty data, classify customers by visit pattern, and pass those segments to Marketing Cloud. Residents receive replenishment and loyalty offers, while visitors get reasons to buy online after they go home.

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   Store-level service and pickup

   Buy-online-pick-up-in-store, special orders and returns generate questions that stores answer inconsistently. Service Cloud routes those inquiries to a central team or the right store, shows order history and fulfillment status on the case, and lets staff send updates by text or email. Managers see which locations have slow pickup times or frequent order problems and can fix staffing or process.

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   Loyalty program management

   Loyalty programs work when members can see their points and rewards and the business can see which rewards change behavior. Salesforce Loyalty Management, or a connected loyalty platform, tracks enrollment, tiers and redemptions, while Marketing Cloud triggers reminders about expiring rewards. Reports compare member and non-member spending by store so leadership can judge whether the program earns its cost or needs a different reward structure.

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From the industries this market leans on. Client names are anonymized and these projects are not specific to Daytona Beach.

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