J.D. Power and Associates is a full-service marketing information firm. Operational for more than 40 years, J.D. Power specializes in automotive forecasting services. The company serves various industries, including telecommunications, traveling agencies, hotels, marine companies, utilities, health care institutes, homebuilder associations, consumer electronics, and financial firms. It offers a wide variety of services, such as syndicated, proprietary, commissioned and media studies, tracking services, forecasting, training, business operations analyses, and consulting services. J.D. Power provides expertise in sales, production, Engine & Transmission and heavy vehicle forecasts. A business unit of the McGraw-Hill Companies, it has branch offices in Los Angeles, Troy, Detroit and Oxford, Mass., Germany, Bangkok, china, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia, and Japan. The company s partners include ACT Research, Oxford Economic Forecasting, Campfire Interactive, and Knibb, Gormezano & Partners.