The table illustrates the sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and banana in five European countries(UK,Switzerland,Sweden,Denmark,Belgium) in two years.
Overall,the sales of fairtrade- labelled coffee in five all countries increased significantly,while banana sales experienced a noticeable upward,for Sweden and Denmark,where sales declined.
In 1999,Switzerland in sales of banana witnessed the largest profit at €15 million euros,and improved more than a third by 2004,the other UK and Belgium started at a one million,and then went up approximately quadruple to €5.5 million euros and €4 million euros in 2004.However,both Sweden and Denmark started at €2 million euros,but then followed by a merely single time decrease from €1.8 to €1 million and €2 million to €0.9 million in last year.
For coffee,the most profitable Switzerland at €3 million in 1999,rose threefold to €6 million,after UK began at €1.5 million euros,made a dramatically growth to €20 million euros and was the highest country sold more coffee than others in 2004,figures for Denmark,Belgium and Sweden had a smallest changes,rose by €0.2 and €0.7 million euros in two decades respectively.
