The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries.

The tables show the amount of money spent on

Fairtrade

coffee

and

bananas

in two separate years in the

UK

, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium and Sweden.

It is clear that

sales

of

Fairtrade

coffee

rose in all five European countries from 1999 to 2004, but

sales

of

Fairtrade

bananas

only went up in three out of the five countries.

Overall

, the

UK

saw by far the highest levels of spending on the two products. In 1999, Switzerland had the highest

sales

of

Fairtrade

coffee

, at €3

million

,

while

revenue from

Fairtrade

bananas

was highest in the

UK

, at €15

million

. By 2004,

however

,

sales

of

Fairtrade

coffee

in the

UK

had risen to €20

million

, and

this

was over three times higher than Switzerland’s

sales

figure for

Fairtrade

coffee

in that year. The year 2004

also

saw dramatic increases in the money spent on

Fairtrade

bananas

in the

UK

and Switzerland, with revenues rising by €32

million

and €4.5

million

respectively.

Sales

of the two

Fairtrade

products were far lower in Denmark, Belgium and Sweden. Small increases in

sales

of

Fairtrade

coffee

can be seen, but revenue remained at €2

million

or below in all three countries in both years.

Finally

, it is noticeable that the money spent on

Fairtrade

bananas

actually fell in Belgium and Sweden.