▶ Your Answer :
According to these tables, the information about sales
of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European
countries is given.
First of all, the UK and Switzerland both recorded
increase in sales of coffee and bananas with Fairtrade label between 1999 and
2004. Especially, the sales of coffee in UK surged significantly from 1.5
million euros in 1999 to 20 million euros in 2004, and the sales of bananas in
UK also increased by three times from 1 million euro in 1999 to 5.5 million
euro in 2004. In Switzerland, while the sales of coffee doubled from 3 million
euros in 1999 to 6 million euros in 2004, the Fairtrade-labelled bananas were
sold by 47 million euros in 2004 that multiplied by three times than in 1999.
Other than the UK and Switzerland, the amount of sales
of coffee and bananas did no change much except the bananas’ sales in Belgium
that increased by more than five times between in 1999 and 2004. Even the sales
of bananas in both Sweden and Denmark decreased between 1999 and 2004, from 1.8
million euros to 1 million euros and from 2 million euros to 0.9 million euros,
respectively.
In conclusion, the total sales of Fairtrade-labelled
coffee and bananas in these five countries increased a lot between 1999 and
2004. Consequently, the UK consists of the largest amount in coffee and
Switzerland take the biggest part in bananas in 2004.
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