The day the first UNIQLO store opened in Taiwan in 2010, a line of shopperssnaked around the department store building where the retailer was located. Inside the shop, the _(1)_ was a shopping frenzy as swarms of people buzzedabout grabbing merchandise. In the two short years since the first store in downtown Taipei opened its doors, the company has _(2)_ to 17 locations in Taiwan. What makes UNIQLO so hot? After all, the company simply sells casual clothing at _(3)_ prices, much like its competitors. UNIQLO has that certain something, and its _(4)_ to success lies in following the template set by businesschampions from Ford Motor Company's founder Henry Ford to Apple's Steve Jobs. This means they take an _(5)_ product and improve on it by giving it aunique spin. UNIQLO began as a men's clothing shop in Japan in 1949, and in 1985, a _(6)_ casual wear store was opened in the city of Hiroshima. Originally called Unique Clothing Warehouse, the name later morphed into a _(7)_ of the first two words and became UNIQLO. In 2001, the company expanded overseas, and today they are Japan's _(8)_ clothing retail chain, with outlets in over a dozenother countries as well as almost 800 stores in Japan. Similar to other clothing retailers like The Gap, UNIQLO _(9)_ much of itsmanufacturing to cheaper locations in order to keep costs low and provide high quality apparel. A more important _(10)_ of UNIQLO's business success has been a merging of Eastern and Western aesthetics. Its clothing style isessentially modeled on the West's casual look, but it also has a certain Japanese style that gives it that all-important twist that is uniquely UNIQLO.
(A) leading (B) outsources (C) reasonable (D) existing (E) key (F) scene (G) expanded (H) aspect (I) unisex (J) combination
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