** Australia's Forbidden Foods Ltd FFF.AX up as much as 6%
at A$0.265, as FFF agrees to buy plant-based snack bar co Blue
Dinosaur for A$4 mln ($2.95 mln)
** Completes A$5.5 mln placement to raise funds for deal,
among other purposes urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASX7WJbXm
** Expects the Blue Dinosaur business combined with FFF's
existing operations to have delivered A$7.9 mln of revenue in
FY21
** FFF down 10.71% so far this year, as of Tuesday's close
when it last traded
($1 = 1.3546 Australian dollars)
(Reporting by Harshita Swaminathan in Bengaluru)
((Harshita.Swaminathan@thomsonreuters.com))