Passage I
The rise of the Japanese Company SONY is one of the world’s great success stories. Most Americans have seen, heard or used excellent SONY products: radios, tape recorders, television sets and digital cameras. Many American companies in this field go back fifty or seventy-five years, but SONY is almost a newcomer. In 1946 Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka got $500 together and founded an electronic equipment manufacturing company. They named it the Tokyo Telecommunications Company but later simplified the name to SONY. The company soon made its mark. SONY was first in Japan with all kinds of electrical equipment using transistors. The company began to expand overseas. From a hundred of workers in 1946, SONY now employs more than twenty thousand. The employees are selected through a national competitive examination. Once they are hired, they are given freedom to experiment. They are even offered lessons in American ways and manners. Morita and Ibuka occasionally put on blue cotton work clothes and mingle with their employees.

“The company soon made its mark” in paragraph 3 means（）:

A．The company used SONY as its trade mark.
B．The company enjoyed a good reputation.
C．The company made rapid progress.
D．The company produced superior products.