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.

The tables illustrate the data

sales

of Faitrade-labelled

coffee

and bananas in

Switzerland

, Denmark, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Sweden in the two years 1999 and 2004.

Overall

, for all five countries

sales

of both products increased significantly over the entire period.

Switzerland

marked the highest banana

sales

in both years.

At the end

of

this

period, the habit of drinking

coffee

among British residents increased dramatically. In 1999, in the United Kingdom

coffee

sales

rose greatly from 1.5

million

euros

to 20

million

euros

in 2004.

Switzerland

had the highest

sales

of

coffee

with 3

million

euros

before the number of

sales

doubled to 6

million

euros

in 2004. Denmark, Belgium and Sweden had almost

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the same number of

coffee

sales

which were 1.8, 1 and 0.8 (

millions

of

euros

), respectively. Before the

coffee

sales

in all three countries increased slightly to 2, 1.7 and 1 (

millions

of

euros

), respectively in 2004. In 1999,

Switzerland

had the highest banana

sales

rate at 15

million

euros

before it increased greatly to 47

million

euros

in 2004.

Sales

of bananas in Belgium and the UK nearly tripled from 1 and 0.6 (

millions

of

euros

) to 4 and 1 (

millions

of

euros

), respectively in 2004.

While

sales

of bananas in both Sweden and Denmark dropped from 1.8

million

Euros

and 2

million

Euros

to 1

million

Euros

and 0.9

million

Euros

in 2004.