Reiman is credited with building the country's largest, private, subscription-based publishing company.
Reiman then worked for three more years at Agricultural Publishers in Milwaukee, which allowed him to save money.
He officially started Reiman Publications in 1965 in the basement of his Hales Corners, Wisconsin home.
For the initial test issue, Reiman created a 16-page magazine with articles on everything from recipes to gardening tips.
Eventually, after sending more promotional copies to additional farm families, Reiman had an initial subscription base of over 80,000.
[5] Eighty percent of the content of Roy Reiman's magazines were written by his readers, through submitted articles and photos and, until 2007, there was no advertising.
Farm Wife News was revamped in 1987 to focus on rural lifestyles and was renamed Country Woman.
In 1991, Reiman launched Reminisce, a nostalgic collection of stories and pictures, submitted by readers, from the earlier decades of the 1900s.
[7] Other divisions of Reiman Media Group include Country Store, a mail order division (founded in 1975), World Wide Country Tours, LLC (1980, closed in January 2012) offering dozens of different domestic and foreign tours, and Homemaker Schools (a 50-year-old company acquired in 1995) hosts locally sponsored Taste of Home Cooking Schools coast to coast.
Additionally, Roy Reiman was a past president of the Iowa State University Alumni Association Board of Directors, an ISU Foundation Governor, an Order of The Knoll Campanile Award recipient, and an ISU Foundation Philanthropy Award recipient.
An entrepreneurial scholars and lectures program in the College of Business also bears Roy and Bobbi Reiman's names.