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HQ may refer to: * Headquarters * High quality (other) Games * ''HQ'' (video game), a live trivia game app * ''HeroQuest'' (role-playing game) * ''Chase H.Q.'', an arcade racing game Businesses and utilities * HQ an imprint of HarperCollins * HQ Bank, a Swedish investment bank * Home Quarters Warehouse, a defunct retail chain * Harmony Airways' IATA airline designator * Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium's defunct IATA airline code Other uses * ''HQ'' (album), a 1975 album by Roy Harper * HAVE QUICK, a frequency-hopping system used to protect military UHF radio traffic * Geely HQ (Haoqing), a car model * Holden HQ, a range of car models * Twickenham Stadium or HQ, a rugby union stadium in London, England * Howland Island Howland Island () is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia and is an unorganized, unincorporated ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headquarters
Headquarters (commonly referred to as HQ) denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. In the United States, the corporate headquarters represents the entity at the center or the top of a corporation taking full responsibility for managing all business activities. In the United Kingdom, the term head office (or HO) is most commonly used for the headquarters of large corporations. The term is also used regarding military organizations. Corporate A headquarters is the entity at the top of a corporation that takes full responsibility for the overall success of the corporation, and ensures corporate governance. The corporate headquarters is a key element of a corporate structure and covers different corporate functions such as strategic planning, corporate communications, tax, legal, marketing, finance, human resources, information technology, and procurement. This entity includes the chief executive officer (C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quality (other)
Quality may refer to: Concepts *Quality (business), the ''non-inferiority'' or ''superiority'' of something *Quality (philosophy), an attribute or a property * Quality (physics), in response theory *Energy quality, used in various science disciplines * Logical quality, philosophical categorization of statements * Service quality, comparison of expectations with performance in a service *Vapor quality, in thermodynamics, the ratio of mass of vapor to that of vapor and liquid * Data quality, refers to the condition of a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables Practices * Quality assurance (QA) * Quality control (QC) Places *Quality, Kentucky, an unincorporated community Brands and enterprises *Quality Comics, an American comic book publisher between 1939 and 1956 *Quality Communications, a comic book publisher started in 1982 *Quality Records, a Canadian entertainment company Music * ''Quality'' (CDQ album), 2016 * ''Quality'' (Talib Kweli album), 2002 *"Quality", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HQ (video Game)
HQ was a mobile trivia game developed by Intermedia Labs for iOS, Android, iPadOS, and tvOS. First released in 2017, the HQ app allowed users to play in daily live trivia games, through which they could win or split prize money. HQ was developed by Vine creators Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll, and credited as a production of Intermedia Labs. The app's original game was HQ Trivia, in which players have 10 seconds to answer multiple-choice questions that incrementally increase in difficulty. Additional games, such as HQ Words and HQ Tunes, were added later. The last HQ games were supposed to be hosted once a week, with a prize pot of $1,500, and typically saw around 15,000 players each. HQ has only approved payouts for games up to June 30, leaving winnings since then unpaid. On February 14, 2020, the company that owned HQ Trivia sent a memo to staff that "effective today, HQ will cease operations and move to dissolution." However, four days later, Yusupov said that he had a tenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HeroQuest (role-playing Game)
''HeroQuest'' is a role-playing game written by Robin D. Laws first published as ''Hero Wars'' by Issaries, Inc. in 2000. It has its roots in Greg Stafford's fantasy world of Glorantha, but was designed as a generic system, suitable for, but not tied to any particular genre. The game's mechanics are focused on quick resolution; ''Contests'' are resolved by comparing the results of two twenty-sided dice, each tied to a character ability chosen by players and/or narrator. After the die roll, the participants work together to interpret the outcome in story terms. In 2020 Moon Design sold the ''HeroQuest'' trademark to Hasbro, rebranding ''HeroQuest'' as ''QuestWorlds''. The game system ''HeroQuest'' focuses on dramatic presentation and storytelling techniques: The system is built around abilities and keywords. A keyword is a broad term to sum up several abilities, such as a profession or a homeland or culture. Character creation There are three main methods to create a cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chase H
Chase or CHASE may refer to: Businesses * Chase Bank, a national bank based in New York City, New York * Chase Aircraft (1943–1954), a defunct American aircraft manufacturing company * Chase Coaches, a defunct bus operator in England * Chase Corporation (1970s–1989), a defunct New Zealand property development company * Chase Motor Truck Company (1907–1919), a defunct truck manufacturer based in Syracuse, New York * Chase, a brand of bicycle made by Cannondale Bicycle Corporation Fictional characters *Chase, in ''PAW Patrol'' * Dell "Chase" Brandstone, fictional boundary warden of ''The Sword of Truth'' epic fantasy novels *Jennifer "Pilot" Chase, in the TV series ''Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future'' Film * ''Chase'' (2010 film), an Indian film * ''Chased'' (film), a 2011 British short film * ''Chase'' (2019 film), an American film * ''Chase'' (2022 film), an Indian film Literature * ''Chase'' (comics), a DC comic book * ''Chase'' (novel), a novel by De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp. The name is a combination of several publishing firm names: Harper & Row, an American publishing company acquired in 1987—whose own name was the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers (founded in 1817) and Row, Peterson & Company—together with Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons (founded in 1819), acquired in 1989. The worldwide CEO of HarperCollins is Brian Murray. HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China. The company publishes many different imprints, both former independent publishing houses and new imprints. History Collins Harper Mergers and acquisitions Collins was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HQ Bank
HQ Bank was a Swedish finance and banking corporation founded by Sven Hagströmer and Mats Qviberg (the last names of which form the H and the Q of the bank's name). It began operations in 2006. Due to unmanageable risk and losses its banking licence was revoked in 2010, the bank's crash caused the loss of several billion SEK and is one of the largest banking crashing in Sweden. Several board members were prosecuted for fraud but were acquitted. History Sven Hagströmer started a finance company in 1981, which became Hagströmer & Qviberg in 1989 when Mats Qviberg joined the company as a partner to Hagströmer. Patrik Enblad was the chief executive officer of the company and Mats Qviberg was chairman of the board of directors. Crash In early 2010, HQ Bank closed down its trading activities, and realised a loss of 1.23 billion SEK in its trading portfolio. Losses were primarily related to the bank's derivatives trading, and since they vastly exceeded the bank's est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Quarters Warehouse
Home Quarters Warehouse (HQ) was an American chain of " big-box" home improvement stores, originally based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In 1984, the chemical manufacturing company W.R. Grace & Co. announced its intentions to enter the home improvement retail business, hiring Bernard R. Kossar and Frank Doczi to head the new chain. History The first Home Quarters stores opened in February 1985 in Virginia Beach and Hampton, Virginia. Grace spun off HQ in 1986, and in October 1987 HQ was in the midst of doing an IPO when " Black Monday" occurred. The SEC put a moratorium on any IPO until the stock market stabilized. In December 1987, Hechinger agreed to buy HQ for $66 million. The merger was completed in February 1988, with Frank Doczi left in charge of the Home Quarters division (Kossar moves on to found OW Office Warehouse, an office supply store that used a logo and branding similar to that of HQ). Under Hechinger, HQ expanded to much of the United States as a viable competi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harmony Airways
Harmony Airways was an airline headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, a suburb of Vancouver. It operated holiday flights from Canada to Mexico, Hawaii and Las Vegas, Nevada. Its main base was Vancouver International Airport.Flight International 3 April 2007 History The airline was officially announced as HMY Airways (an abbreviation for Harmony) by David Ting Kwok Ho in February 2002. After acquiring two Boeing 757-200 jetliners in September and November 2002, the airline's inaugural flight flew from Vancouver in November 2002. The airline was wholly owned by David Ting Kwok Ho. Throughout the mid 2000s, the airline steadily expanded, first within Canada, but it soon expanded to Hawaii and to many destinations in southern USA. Future plans included expanding into China, but those plans were never realized. The airline was renamed Harmony Airways in May 2004. Harmony's telephone reservations were contracted to a dedicated call centre team at Vantis Corporati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium was a Belgian leisure airline owned by the Thomas Cook Group. It operated scheduled flights to destinations throughout Europe and Africa from its base at Brussels Airport. The airline operated from 2002 until 2017. History The airline was established on 12 December 2001 by the Thomas Cook Group to serve the Belgian holiday market, and started operations on 13 March 2002. Until January 2004, flight tickets could only be purchased via travel agencies as part of package tours; since then individual seat reservations are also possible. The airline had several sister companies, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia and Condor, all of which have a joint fleet management. In March 2017, parent company Thomas Cook announced its intention to sell its Belgian operations to Lufthansa. Consequently, Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium was shut down by late October 2017 with two aircraft and all traffic rights being handed to Brussels Airlines. Its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HQ (album)
''HQ'' is the eighth studio album by English folk/rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper. It was first released in 1975 by Harvest Records. In the United States the album was released under the title ''When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease'', which is also the name of the LP's most popularly known track. History Harper considered ''HQ'' to be "...probably the best record that I have made to date" and "...a great album made at one of the best times of my life" Originally the album was to be called ''Blood From a Stone'', but it was changed to avoid unwanted comparisons with Dylan's '' Blood on the Tracks''. Songs "The Game" features David Gilmour and John Paul Jones, playing lead guitar and bass respectively. The "scribble lark" referred to in "Forget Me Not" is an old country name for the yellowhammer. " When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease", one of Harper's best-known songs, features the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, arranged by David Bedford. The song is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
