Band 6+: The graph below gives information about the sales of the three most commonly purchased items in a particular bakery for the year 2014. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

In the given graph, the purchase of the top three bakery products, which are bread, buns, and pies, are shown during the year of 2014.

Overall, whilst the sales of pies had a smallest part in the market, bread and buns led the bakery market with almost the same share. Even though, pie market had the most consistent improvement in bakery sales, it did not change the result of the race in the market.

After having a decrease in the first quarter from $80.000 to less than +50.000, bread sales fluctuated around $40.000 and $60.000 in the second and third quarter; furthermore, eventually after September the purchases increased linearly, and reached to $80.000 again. During the timeline when bread was fluctuating, buns sales kept stability with $70.000 value in the market after having growth in the first quarter. However, the buns market lost value after August till end of the year.

The smallest market in the top three bakeries, which is the pie market, started the year with $10.000 in sales and with linear growth it reached $20.000 in August. After keeping the stability for more two months with the value of $20.000 by adding $10.000 value to itself, the sales of pies reached $40.000 at the end of the year.