The tables below give information about sales of 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. Write at least 150 words.

The tables below give information about sales of 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.

Write at least 150 words.
The tables demonstrate how much Fairtrade coffee and bananas were sold in 1999 and 2004.
Overall
,
Switzerland
was in both years on top of the list except for the coffee purchase in 2004 that British people surpassed them. The
sale
of coffee in the UK under the label of Fairtrade had seen a dramatic rise by 2004, from 1.5 to 20
million
euros.
Switzerland
which used to be the top seller, in the
last
year
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stood at the second rand,
although
the Swiss had doubled their corresponding purchase after five years. The other European countries under the study - Denmark, Belgium, and Sweden - accounted for trivial numbers in
sale
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compared to the first two countries mentioned above. Faritrade-labelled bananas were the most popular in
Switzerland
in the
last
year of the 20th century with 15
million
euros
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sale
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. The other countries did not have more than 5
million
euros in the market
then
. After half a decade,
Switzerland
was still standing on top, selling 47
million
which was even almost three times its own
sale
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in 1999. One prominent feature of the report is that the UK and Belgium had increased more than 5 times each, (1-5.5) and (0.6-4) respectively. Sweden and Denmark represented the only declines throughout the data in both tables, (1.8-1) and (2-0.9) in order.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Fairtrade-labelled
  • sales figures
  • percentage increase/decrease
  • European countries
  • sales volume
  • notable trend
  • exponential growth
  • moderate rise
  • marked decline
  • comparative analysis
  • economic factors
  • consumer preferences
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