The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries.
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
, over the given period, the sales
of bananas in Switzerland had the highest portion among the other countries, while
coffee
sales
in Sweden
accounted for the lowest.
According to
the first table, coffee
sales
in the United Kingdom topped the list, ranging from 1.5 to 20 million
euros
. In addition
, the figure for coffee
sales
doubled, starting at the point of 3 million
euros
in 1999 and reaching 6 million
euros
in 2004. Additionally
, the three remaining countries, Denmark, Belgium
and Sweden
, experienced a slight increase to less than 1 million
euros
.
The second table showed that in Switzerland, banana sales
ranked first with 15 to 47 million
euros
, followed by the UK and Belgium
. The UK saw an increase from 1 to 5.5 million
euros
, while
Belgium
's sales
ranged between 0.6 and 4 million
euros
. Moreover
, a contrasting pattern was seen in Sweden
and Denmark, where sales
of bananas decreased from 1.8 to 1 and 2 to 0.9 million
euros
, respectively.Submitted by hongminh317 on
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