Sales and share prices for Coca-Cola

IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 with answer.

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The chart and graph below give information about sales and share prices for Coca-Cola.

Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.

You should write at least 150 words.

Fizzling Coca-Cola share price, $

Coca-Cola share price

 A lot of bottles Coca-Cola’s unit case volume by region 2000, % of total

Coca-Cola's unit case
Sample Answer:
The given diagrams present information about the sales quantity and share prices of famous brand Coca-Cola. As is observed from the presented graphs, the share price of Coca-Cola increased considerably in 1998 and then fell to about 55 dollar in 2001 North America and Europe had the highest percentages of sales of this product in 2000.

According to the line graph, the share price was only about 35 in 1996 and this reached to about 70 dollar in the next year. The share price of Coca-Cola reached to around 80 dollars in 1998 which was the maximum share price of this brand among the given years. After that the share price kept on decreasing and reached to lowest rate at about 46 dollar in 2000. In 2001 the share price reached to around 58 dollar.

North America had the largest market for Coca-Cola as more than 30% of total global sales of Coca-cola came from this region. This brand had the second largest market in Africa and Middle East where more than 25% of total sales were made. Europe contributed 20.5% sales of Coca-Cola while Asia and Latin America had comparatively less sales of Coca-Cola with 16.4 and 7.0 percentages respectively.