The table below give information about sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in 5 European countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The table below give information about sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in 5 European countries.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The charts given illustrate sales figures and data related to bananas and coffee collected in
five
countries, including
Switzerland
,
Denmark
, Belgium, Sweden, and the
UK
, from 1999 to 2004.
Overall
, It is clearly apparent that, in
five
years, the
UK
's coffee
market
share
rocketed significantly from 1.5
million
euros to second place in the
market
in 1999 to 20
million
in 2004.
In addition
, in the banana sector,
Switzerland
achieved approximately more than three times the amount of sales and went from 15
million
in 1999 to 47
million
in 2004. Regarding coffee, in 1999,
Switzerland
had the highest
share
in the
market
with 3
million
, followed by
Denmark
and the
UK
with 1.8 and 1.5
million
, respectively. Sweden's figure of 0.8
million
was the lowest among the
five
regions.
Nevertheless
, during
five
years, many things changed, leading to the
UK
's surged trend of 20
million
, and
Switzerland
,
Denmark
, and Belgium's
market
share
increased to 6, 2, and 1.7
million
, respectively.
On the other hand
,
Switzerland
successfully experienced a significant increase in the banana sales
market
, and the upward trend was vivid in three countries except for Sweden and
Denmark
, which faced a slight decrease in their
market
share
, going from 1.8
million
to 1
million
and from 2
million
to 0.9
million
in 2004.
Nonetheless
, in the
UK
the trend rocketed from 1
million
to 5 and in Belgium it increased remarkably from 0.6 to 4
million
in 2004.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words five, switzerland, denmark, uk, market, share, million with synonyms.
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  • sales figures
  • Fairtrade-labelled
  • substantial rise
  • stable sales
  • modest increase
  • significant increase
  • decline in sales
  • trends
  • comparisons
  • features
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