The tables below give information about sales o f Fairtrade* - labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The table compares the sales of
coffee
and bananas
with fair trade-labelled in the UK
, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium
and Sweden
in 1999 and 2004.
Overall
, the revenue from coffee
and bananas
increased in all countries, except for Belgium
and Sweden
selling bananas
. Besides
this
, the UK
earned the most revenue in both coffee
and bananas
whereas
the least income was earned by Sweden
.
Regarding coffee
sales, Switzerland was the only one earning above 2 million
euros and rose double that in 2004, accounting for 6 million
. There was a significant raise from 1.5 million
to 20 million
during the 5-year period in the UK
, compared to Belgium
growing 0.3 million
and Denmark and Sweden
slightly increasing by 0.2 million
.
In terms of bananas
, similarly
, the UK
has an enormous increase, beginning with 15 million
in 1999 and 47 million
in 2004. Both Switzerland and Denmark started at 1 and 0.6 million
, growing rapidly in this
period, coming to 5.5 and 4 million
euros respectively. Nevertheless
, the decline in Belgium
was from 1.8 to 1 million
, more than Sweden
's marginal decrease, about 0.1 million
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Vocabulary: Replace the words coffee, bananas, uk, belgium, sweden, million with synonyms.
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