UK online grocer Ocado makes first annual profit

LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - British online grocer Ocado on Tuesday posted an annual pretax profit for the firsttime since it was founded in 2000.

The firm, which signed its first third-party deal withBritain's No. 4 grocer Morrisons in 2013, said it made apretax profit before one off items of 10.1 million pounds ($15.3 million) in the year to Nov. 30 2014.

That was in line with analyst expectations and compares witha loss of 3.8 million pounds in the 2012-13 year.

Ocado, whose range includes products supplied by upmarketgrocer Waitrose, had previously reported full-yeargroup sales rose 20.4 percent to 1.03 billion pounds. ($1 = 0.6655 pounds) (Reporting by James Davey; editing by Kate Holton)