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 two tables illustrate the profit of Fairtrade-labelled
coffee
and banana in two different years between 1999 and 2004 in
UK
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the UK
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, Switzerland,
Denmark
, Belgium, and Sweden. The highest
sales
of
coffee
in 1999
was
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were
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in
Denmark
, reaching almost 2
million
euros
while
five years later, in 2004, UK
coffee
sales
surpassed
this
record with
coffee
sales
income
to
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of
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approximately 20
million
euros
.
Denmark
and Sweden experienced a slight increase in their
sales
by 0.2
million
euros
over the period, starting from 1.8
million
euros
and 0.8
million
euros
, respectively, to 2
million
euros
and 1
million
euros
, respectively. One of the prominent features of the second table is that, between 1999 to 2004 there was a dramatic increase in bananas
sales
in Switzerland, skyrocketing from 15
million
euros
to 47
million
euros
.
On the contrary
, Sweden and
Denmark
declined in their bananas
sales
, dropping from 1.8
million
euros
and 2
million
euros
in 1999 to 1
million
of
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apply
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euros
and 0.9
million
euros
in 2004, 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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