Marna, the London-based premium iced tea brand founded by Tristan Flint and Mauro Auzinger, is now stocked in every café across David Lloyd Clubs in the UK.
Marna built its early presence through luxury hospitality — Fortnum & Mason, Harrods, and Soho House . Now, David Lloyd's club-café network gives the brand daily, repeat-purchase volume in a wellness-aligned setting.
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Each Marna batch is cold-brewed for 24 hours using single-origin loose leaf tea. Cold brewing extracts flavour without the bitterness or tannin breakdown that hot-brewing produces, which is part of why the method has migrated steadily up the speciality coffee and tea space over the past five years.
Marna's recipe contains no added sugar, no tea extracts, and no powdered tea dust — the typical shortcuts of mass-market iced tea, where the dominant UK grocery SKUs lean on concentrate-and-sugar formulations.
The founders, who first connected on a US West Coast road trip, spent more than two years refining the brewing method before launching commercially.
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