The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries.
The tables compare the turnover of Fairtrade
coffee
and bananas in two separate years in the UK
, Switzerland, Demark, Belgium and Sweden
.
Overall
, while
the amount of money gained from selling those goods mostly increased, the figure for bananas in Belgium and Sweden
decreased. In addition
, the UK
earned more money in both coffee
and bananas than any other country.
In 1999, the sales of coffee
in Switzerland were 3 million
euros
, followed by Denmark and UK
at 1.8 and 1.5 million
euros
respectively. Sweden
earned the lowest money from selling this
commodity, with 0.8 million
euros
. After five years, the UK
dominated the sales figure for coffee
at 20 million
euros
while
the other data climbed by about 0.2 to 3 million
euros
only.
Regarding banana turnover, the UK
always ranked top recording 15 million
euros
in 1999 which rose threefold after five years. Switzerland and Denmark exhibited a marked upturn in their sales, to 5.5 and 4 million
euros
. In contrast
, the figure for Belgium and Sweden
fell slightly to around 1 million
euros
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