The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries.

The given tables compare the revenue of Fairtrade

coffee

and bananas in the

UK

, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, and Sweden in the years 1999 and 2004.

Overall

, the amount of money spent on

coffee

rose in all these European countries from 1999 to 2004

while

that of bananas only went up in three out of the five countries. It is

also

noticeable that the United Kingdom saw the highest Fairtrade sales of the two products. In 1999, Switzerland ranked first in terms of

coffee

turnover, at 3

million

Euros

, followed by Denmark and the

UK

( at 1.5 and 1.8

million

Euros

, respectively). By 2004,

however

, there was a significant increase in the

coffee

revenue in the

UK

, to 20

million

Euros

, which was over three times higher than Switzerland’s figure in that year.

By contrast

, slight rises in the sales of

this

product were seen in the remaining nations but only ranged from 1 to 2

million

Euros

in both years. Regarding the turnover of Fairtrade bananas, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Denmark experienced substantial increases over the period. The highest figure belonged to the

UK

, at 47

million

Euros

.

On the other hand

, figures for Belgium and Sweden dropped and remained at below 2

million

Euros

.