Gillingham FC sponsorship announcement carried by AP News and other outlets
On 17 August 2026 Ballipinar Dental Clinic issued a press release on GlobeNewswire about its LED board sponsorship of Gillingham Football Club, and AP News published it the same day. The release explains why a dental clinic based in Antalya chose English football to reach people in the United Kingdom. CEO Rıdvan Ballipinar describes the agreement as a bridge between Antalya and the UK. The text is the clinic's own announcement, not independent reporting.
What the announcement says
In August 2026 the clinic published an announcement about its sponsorship of Gillingham Football Club, an English club that plays at Priestfield Stadium in Kent. The club announced the partnership on 7 November 2025, and the Ballipinar name has been on the LED boards at the club's home matches since the game against Crawley Town on 15 November 2025.
Rıdvan Ballipinar, who leads the clinic, described the aim as building a bridge between Antalya and the United Kingdom, and said that football lets the clinic reach an audience it would not otherwise meet.
How it was distributed
The announcement went out over GlobeNewswire, a newswire service, and was picked up from there by AP News, Yahoo Finance, KTLA 5, FOX 8, WGN-TV, abc27, Business Insider and Benzinga.
All of those pages carry the same text. It is one announcement republished in several places rather than several separate reports; each placement has its own card on the news page, so you can check any of them yourself.
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