She said that the firm, which won the Leicestershire Business of the Year award, was proof that British manufacturing could "compete with the best in the world".
Chairman Bruce Sharpless and HR director April Richardson are pictured presenting Hewitt with a book covering Sharpless 60 years in print.
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