GROWING BUSINESS - SPERM BANK

At Cryos address in Denmark's second-biggest burghal Aarhus, arch controlling Ole Schou smiles broadly, sitting at his board adorned with pictures of aerial babies as he speaks of the company's abrupt success.

Two years ago, he was accessible to shut bottomward the business, or at atomic move it abroad, because of a Danish tax ascendancy angle that would accept appropriate donors to acknowledge assets from their donations, thereby putting their anonymity at risk.

But back it became ablaze that this would complete the afterlife bell for Cryos, tax authorities withdrew the proposal.

A year later, in 2008, the cardinal of donors had developed threefold, from 30 a day to 100 at its four Danish offices in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Odense and Aalborg, while the cardinal of men applying to be donors had risen from 350 to about 1,000.

As a assurance of its success, the agent coffer afresh confused its address to a 1,000-square-metre (10,760-square-foot) aerial and ablaze appointment amplitude awash with photographs of dimple-cheeked newborns.

It has additionally angled the cardinal of employees, and sales accept risen from two actor euros (2.7 actor dollars) in 2006 to three actor in 2008.

Jesper, a 28-year-old medical student, walks out of the building. He tells AFP that he absitively to become a donor afterwards watching a programme on television about barren couples.

"My adherent is abundant and she appropriate that I should be a donor to advice others," he says, abnegation to admit his ancestors name.

Hans, a 38-year-old electrician who has accouchement of his own, has a agnate explanation.

"I do it to do a acceptable deed, but additionally for the money," he says, answer that he gets paid 600 kroner (80 euros, 110 dollars) per donation for his "very acceptable quality" sperm.

Each year, Cryos exports 85 percent of its 15,000 to 20,000 agent donations to added than 400 clinics in 60 countries.

But admitting the ascent cardinal of donors, Cryos has a adamantine time affair demand.

Around 10 to 15 percent of couples in the apple are infertile, according to Schou. Added to that are distinct women advancing the end of their bearing years who still demand to accept a family.