Title

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.

Practice

The tables above illustrate the sales of two kinds of Fairtrade-labelled products, coffee and bananas in five different European countries from 1999 to 2004 in terms of millions of euros.

It is noticeable that most countries saw a great increase in both coffee and bananas during this five years, only the sales of bananas in Sweden and Denmark got a little descend.

In terms of coffee, the figure of Switzerland is the higest, which was achiving 3 millions of euros, among these five countries in 1999, while Sweden saled only 0.8 millions of euros. However, the UK experienced a dramatic surge, rising from 1.5 millions to 20 millions, which became the biggest country sealing coffee. In contrast, Denmark just saw a samll increase, rising from 1.8 to 2.0 millions of euros. Additioanlly, another three countries, Switzerland, Delgium and Sweden also saw a increased by 3, 0.2 and 0.2 millions of euros respectively.

Regarding bananas, Switzerland had the largest sales scale in 1999, at 15 million euros. Belgium had the smallest sales among all the countries, with just 0.6 million euros. After five years, three countries - Switzerland, the UK, and Belgium - saw an increase in banana sales, by 32, 4.5, and 3.4 million euros respectively. Meanwhile, the sales of bananas in other countries decreased during this period, with Sweden losing about 0.8 million euros and Denmark dropping 1.1 million euros. It is worth noting that Switzerland remained the country with the largest sales scale for bananas in 2004, while Denmark became the country selling the least bananas.