12:01 PM EST - Cott Corp. : has returned to profitability just as reports circulate the company is about to be sold, reporting first-quarter net earnings of US$4.8 million compared with a year-earlier loss of $2.1 million. The Toronto-based bottler said Thursday its earnings amounted to 7 cents per share diluted, compared with a loss of 3 cents per share in the same period a year before. Cott Corp.
shares T.BCB are trading off 4 cents at $18.44.
