She worked with her husband on several business trips to Germany and France as the company expanded its range to Europe and the United States.
[5] Because of her husband's political positions, Benziger was called Mrs. National Councillor and later Mrs. Council of States by her contemporaries.
For more than 50 years, her philanthropy made her the leading figure in the local women's association, founded in 1846 by her older sister Katharina Steinauer-Benziger.
Their organization, of which Meinrada was president from 1882, developed intense activities to aid the poor, care for the sick, train teachers and help women who could promote regional crafts and weave straw in Einsiedeln in the early 1850s.
In 1886 and 1891 she traveled to the United States, where two of her sons and other relatives had set up subsidiaries of the publishing house in New York City and Cincinnati, Ohio.