Springboard, the leading provider of town centre performance monitoring and benchmarking services in the UK has just appointed Sharon Scott as their representative in Northern Ireland. Sharon, who has her own consultancy, Town Centre Solutions, specialising in town centre management and regeneration, is ideally placed to ensure all Springboard's services will be specifically tailored to the Northern Ireland market and will enhance and add real commercial value to your town centre regeneration strategies and developments.

Springboard's services include Milestone, which represents a breakthrough in the performance monitoring and benchmarking of town and city centres across the UK. Developed as a collaborative project with the national Association of Town Centre Management, Milestone, which was launched at the Town Centre Management World Congress in June, is an on-line subscription service for towns and cities throughout the UK. Milestone provides a complete understanding of your town's performance, through such key performance indicators as employment, property values, consumer demand, town centre provision and town centre quality.

Springboard Customer Footfall Counting, provides an objective measurement of your town centres performance, translated into easy to use reports and graphs via our online website – enabling analysis to be comprehensive, effective and fast. Springboard Perform, which collects retail sales data and benchmarks against retail categories and locations. Springboard also publishes the national UK Footfall Index.

Please do not hesitate to contact Sharon for more information on 07827 321492 or email sharon.scott@spring-board.info to find out how Springboard can help your town or city in Northern Ireland.

Springboard is also the main sponsor of the Retail NI 2010 Conference, to be held in Belfast on Thursday 30th September, see Conference website www.retail-ni.co.uk/Home for further details. Come along for a chat and see the Springboard team, who will be presenting its services and providing on-line live demonstrations at the event.