Roy J Reiman was an American publicist and philanthropist who was the founder of Reiman Publications based in Greendale, Wisconsin, which is best known for its country-oriented magazines, books, and other home products.
19 Facts About Roy Reiman
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Roy Reiman was named publisher of the year in 1991 by Magazine Weekly and Wisconsin's Master Entrepreneur in 1992.
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Roy Reiman was born May 16,1934, and grew up on a farm near Auburn, Iowa.
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Roy Reiman worked in a creamery to pay for his college tuition.
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Roy Reiman graduated from Iowa State University in 1957 with a degree in agricultural journalism.
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Roy Reiman's first publishing job was for the farming journal Capper's Farmer, where he became managing editor at the age of 23.
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Roy Reiman then worked for three more years at Agricultural Publishers in Milwaukee, which allowed him to save money.
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Roy Reiman did have some success with the publication of Farm Building News.
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Roy Reiman officially started Reiman Publications in 1965 in the basement of his Hales Corners, Wisconsin home.
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Roy Reiman made 40,000 copies of the issue and mailed them to farm families at a cost of $20,000.
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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.
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In 1991, Roy Reiman launched Reminisce, a nostalgic collection of stories and pictures, submitted by readers, from the earlier decades of the 1900s.
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In 1993, Roy Reiman branched out into cooking magazines with the birth of Taste of Home.
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In 1998 Roy Reiman sold his majority interest in Reiman Publications to Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago investment firm, for $640 million.
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Roy Reiman sold his remaining interest in 2002 to the Reader's Digest Association.
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Roy Reiman continued to be active with his alma mater, Iowa State University.
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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.
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Bobbi Roy Reiman is an Order of The Knoll Campanile Award recipient, ISU Foundation Philanthropy Award recipient, and a member of the University Museums Curators Associates.
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Roy Reiman died on September 16,2024, at the age of 90.