Kannu Patel is a 55-year-old painter in Virar, India who owns a shop called Kannu Painter. In the past, he specialized in sign boards and billboards but now also does hand painting, thermacol decorations, and T-shirt painting. In the future, he plans to get into flex painting. His daily revenue has increased from Rs. 80 in the past to Rs. 100 now, with a monthly profit of Rs. 500. He works from 8 AM to 7 PM daily except Sundays. While signboards and billboards previously drove business, name plates do now, and flex paintings may in the future. Asian Paints is his main supplier, and his skills
5. ANS 1) PAST: Drawing and painting was skills and hobby. So he made this passion into business.
6. PRESENT/FUTURE: He is planning to opt for flex paintings to remain existed in the business market.
7. ANS 2) PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE: People admire the skills of hand paintings as it is not so easy task for each and everyone. Teenagers like to have painted T-shirts to make their group unique. Flex and handmade signboards are used for advertisement.
8. ANS 3) PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE: He cross tally the no. of orders he taken to paint and the objective he had set to complete his monthly target. He maintains an old and simple type of book- keeping . he had created a goodwill in the market.
13. ANS 5) PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE: People who want their signboards to run for longer time will opt for hand made and thus are the customers of his business.
15. ANS 1) PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE: Asian paints is the most important supplier from many years. Other items such as thermocol, wooden sticks and galonize metal are purchased from local suppliers.