The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries.
The tables present data on purchases of
fairtrade-labelled
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fair trade-labelled
coffee
and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five countries
of Europa.
Overall
, while
banana sales
in Switzerland, the UK and Belgium increased and in Sweden and Denmark decreased, the
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coffee
sales
went up in all five countries
.
In both years, Switzerland people
bought bananas far more than people
in all other four countries
, raising significantly from 15 to 47 million
euros
. Bananas consumption in the UK and Belgium slightly increased in 2004 to be
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million
euros
respectively. whereas
sales
in Sweden and Denmark showed a decline to 1, 0.9 million
euros
in 2004.
Only 1.5 million
euros
worth of coffee
was bought in the UK in 1999; however
, sales
in the country climbed dramatically to 20 million
euros
in 2004, which was the highest across five countries
this
year. Although
people
in Switzerland were the biggest coffee
buyers in 1999 with 3 million
euros
, this
figure showed a relatively small growth to 6 million
euros
in 2004. People
in Denmark, Belgium and Sweden also
bought more coffee
in 2004, but the increases were slight to 2, 1.7 and 1 million
euros
respectively.Submitted by marowan.selim on
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