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

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

countries

of the

UK

,

Switzerland

,

Denmark

, Belgium and

Sweden

.

Overall

, the

UK

has a significant growth in the sale of

coffee

and in the revenue of bananas,

Switzerland

made a remarkable increase,

while

Sweden

and

Denmark

faced a slight decline. It is obvious that in the

market

of selling

coffee

, all five

countries

' revenues rose, and the sales in the

UK

's

market

increased from 1.5

million

to 20

million

, which was the biggest growth among the five

countries

. Competing for the revenue from

Switzerland

's

market

of

coffee

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

million

. In 2004, it became 6

million

. For the three remaining

countries

,

Denmark

, Belgium and

Sweden

, they all increased to less than 1

million

. Looking at the information on the banana

market

,

Switzerland

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

million

to 47

million

euros. Meanwhile, the

UK

also

earned an increase,

although

it was not as significant as

Switzerland

, it grew by a factor of 5.5, from 1

million

euros in 1999.

In contrast

, people in

Sweden

and

Denmark

reduced the number of bananas they bought,

therefore

the revenues in the two

countries

decreased.

Sweden

dropped from 1.8

million

to 1

million

,

while

Denmark

fell from 2

million

to 0.9

million

euros.