The tables below
give information about sales of Fairtrade – labeled coffee and bananas in 1999
and 20047 in five European countries.
Summarize the
information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons
where relevant.
Write at least 150
words
The
given tables elucidate changes in the sales of coffee and bananas in 5 European
countries in million Euros between 1999 and 2004.
On
an overall, sales of coffee increased in all countries of Europe – most prominent
rise was in the UK, while that of
bananas rose in Switzerland, UK and Belgium, and fell in Sweden and Denmark.
In
case of coffee, a steep rise in sales of coffee was witnessed in UK, almost 8 times,
rising from 1.5 to 20 million Euros followed Switzerland, from 3 to 6 millions;
Belgium, from 1 to 1.7; Denmark, from
1.8 to 2; and Sweden the lowest from 0.8 to 1
million.
Quite
in contrast, the sales of Bananas was highest in Switzerland in terms of quantum,
rising from 15 to 47 millions, in the UK and Belgium, it was highest in terms
of rise proportion, 5.5 times, from 1 to 5.5 and from 0.6 to 4 respectively. The
sales in Denmark fell more than double from 2 to 0.9 and Sweden 1.8 to 1
