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 table compared the
sales
of coffee and bananas with fair trade-labelled in England,
Switzerland
,
Denmark
, Belgium and
Sweden
in the years 1999 and 2004.
Overall
, the United Kingdom (UK) was the highest
sales
of Coffee,
while
Sweden
was the lowest one in 2004. Compared to the category of Bananas,
Switzerland
accounted for the highest
sales
whereas
Denmark
was the lowerest one in the same year. In the first table, the highest
increased
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in coffee
sales
was in the UK, which increased by more than time
times
to 20
million
euros
. Moving to
Switzerland
, it rose significantly two
times
, which was from 3 to 6
million
. Belgium
also
rose nearly 2
times
, similar to
Switzerland
, ranging from 1
million
to 1.7
million
.
Denmark
and
Sweden
, the other countries, had the same increased scale which was only 0.2
million
as well as
the total number counts below 2
million
in 2004. In the second table,
Switzerland
accounted for the highest amount in selling fairtrade bananas, at 47
million
of
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euros
in 2004,
while
the UK had the highest increase, which was more than 5
times
, from 1
million
euros
in 1999 to 5.5
million
euros
in 2004. Meanwhile, Belgium had a similar increasing scale during the same period,increased for 2
times
or more ranging from 0.6 to 4
million
euros
.
Sweden
and
Denmark
are the ones who fell
sales
by 0.8 and 1.1
million
euros
,respectively.
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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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