Invalided out of the Army in 1947, Hibbert returned to CG Hibbert, his family's wine and spirits business, which was on the verge of collapse. Finding "the cut and thrust of commercial life", as he put it, "as exciting as war with no prisoners taken," he turned the firm around and rose to be its managing director. Among the diverse fields to which he extended it was soft-drink canning in which he introduced the ring pull can to the United Kingdom. He received the Queen's Award for Industry.
