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.

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.
The given tables illustrate the amount of
income
(in millions of
euroes
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euros
) from
sales
of
fairtrade-labelled
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fair trade-labelled
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coffee
and
bananas
from 1999 to 2004 in five different European countries.
Overall
, it can be clearly seen that the
sales
of
fairtrade-labelled
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fair trade-labelled
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coffee
rose in 2004 for all countries where
UK
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the UK
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had a significant rise in
this
category
. Meanwhile, the
sales
for
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of
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bananas
rose only in Switzerland,
UK
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the UK
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, and Belgium. Looking at the information in more detail, the
income
for
coffee
sales
in
UK
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the UK
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was 1.5
million
euro
in 1999 and it increased significantly to 20
million
euro
. There was doubled
income
for
coffee
trade in Switzerland from 3
million
euro
to 6
million
euro
. The least
income
for
this
category
was Sweden,
only
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with only
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0.8
million
euro
in 1990 and it went up by 0.2
million
euro
in the final year. With respect to
sales
of
bananas
, the highest
sales
for
this
category
was Switzerland where it earned 15
million
euro
in 1999 and 47
million
euro
in 2004.
UK
and Belgium had an
increase
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increasing
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trend for
this
category
,
while
Sweden and Denmark saw a decrease in terms of
Bananas
sales
, from 1.8
million
euro
to 1
million
euro
and from 2
million
euro
to 0.9
million
euro
respectively.
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Vocabulary: The word "significant" was used 2 times.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Fairtrade labelled
  • significant increase/decrease
  • consumer awareness
  • sustainable growth
  • ethical consumerism
  • market trends
  • dominant market
  • comparative analysis
  • socio-economic impact
  • market penetration
  • exponential growth
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