The baby boom is big business for Mothercare FD Neil Harrington, writes Jenny Hirschkorn.

The rising birth rate, not just in the UK but across the globe, might be causing a few headaches for politicians and environmentalists, but there is one company for which the statistics are decidedly good news. Mothercare, the rapidly expanding retail chain for which the words baby and boom can loosely be translated as ‘ker-ching, ker-ching’, is one of the best performing businesses on the high street.