You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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. *Fairtrade: a category of products for which farmers from developing countries have been paid an officially agreed fair price. You should write at least 150 words.

The tables illustrate Fairtrade's revenue from the sale of labelled

coffee

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and bananas in 1999 and 2004 respectively, the data was collected in the

countries

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of the

UK

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,

Switzerland

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,

Denmark

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, Belgium and

Sweden

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.

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, the

UK

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has a significant growth in the sale of

coffee

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and in the revenue of bananas,

Switzerland

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made a remarkable increase,

while

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Sweden

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and

Denmark

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faced a slight decline. It is obvious that in the

market

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of selling

coffee

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, all five

countries

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' revenues rose, and the sales in the

UK

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's

market

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increased from 1.5

million

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to 20

million

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, which was the biggest growth among the five

countries

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. Competing for the revenue from

Switzerland

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's

market

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of

coffee

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, it doubled its own sales in 1999, which was 3

million

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. In 2004, it became 6

million

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. For the three remaining

countries

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,

Denmark

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, Belgium and

Sweden

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, they all increased to less than 1

million

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. Looking at the information on the banana

market

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,

Switzerland

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had an incredible increase in sales by a factor of more than three. Observating in a more precise way, it increased from 15

million

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to 47

million

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euros. Meanwhile, the

UK

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also

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earned an increase,

although

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it was not as significant as

Switzerland

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, it grew by a factor of 5.5, from 1

million

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euros in 1999.

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, people in

Sweden

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and

Denmark

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reduced the number of bananas they bought,

therefore

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the revenues in the two

countries

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decreased.

Sweden

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dropped from 1.8

million

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to 1

million

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,

while

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Denmark

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fell from 2

million

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to 0.9

million

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euros.