EXHIBIT 99.2
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[LOGO] MOHAWK
INDUSTRIES, INC.
Instructions for Voting Your Proxy
Stockholders of record have three ways to vote their proxies:
. through the Internet (using a browser);
. by telephone (using a touch-tone telephone); and
. by mail (traditional method).
Your Internet or telephone vote authorizes the named proxies to vote your
shares in the same manner as if you had returned your proxy card. We encourage
you to use these cost effective and convenient ways of voting, 24 hours a day,
7 days a week.
BY TELEPHONE BY INTERNET BY MAIL
(Available only until ______ Eastern (Available only until _______ Eastern Mark, sign and date your
time, on _____________, 2002) time on _____________, 2002) instruction card and return it
in the postage paid envelope.
On a touch-tone telephone, call Access the Internet voting website at If you are entering instructions
TOLL FREE 1-888-216-1339. https://www.proxyvotenow.com/mhk. by telephone or the Internet,
24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You Enter the Control Number in the box please do not mail your
will be asked to enter only the below and follow the instructions on instruction card.
Control Number in the box below your screen.
then follow the prerecorded
directions. You will incur only your usual
Internet charges.
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CONTROL NUMBER
FOR TELPHONE/INTERNET VOTING
TO VOTE BY MAIL, PLEASE DETACH PROXY CARD HERE
Please sign exactly as name appears on this proxy card. When shares are held
by joint tenants, both must sign. When signing as attorney-in-fact, executor,
administrator, personal representative, trustee or guardian, please give full
title as such. If a corporation, please sign in full corporate name by
President or other authorized officer. If a partnership, please sign in
partnership name by authorized person.
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Signature
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Signature, if held jointly
Dated:________________________, 2002
IF YOU VOTE BY MAIL, PLEASE MARK, DATE, SIGN AND RETURN
THIS PROXY CARD PROMPTLY USING THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE.
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PROXY
MOHAWK INDUSTRIES, INC.
CALHOUN, GEORGIA
SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The undersigned stockholder of Mohawk Industries, Inc., a Delaware
corporation ("Mohawk"), hereby acknowledges receipt of the Notice of Special
Meeting of Stockholders and the related joint proxy statement-prospectus and
hereby appoints Jeffrey S. Lorberbaum and John D. Swift, and each of them,
proxies, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for and in the
name of the undersigned, to vote all shares of Mohawk common stock which the
undersigned held of record on February 6, 2002, at the Special Meeting of
Stockholders to be held on ______________, 2002 at 9:00 a.m. local time, at the
offices of Alston & Bird LLP, 1201 West Peachtree Street, 46th Floor, Atlanta,
Georgia, and at any adjournments or postponements thereof. The affirmative vote
of a majority of the votes cast at the meeting may authorize the adjournment or
postponement of the meeting; provided, however, that no proxy which is voted
against Proposal 1 will be voted in favor of any adjournments or postponements
to solicit further proxies for such proposal.
1. Approval of the issuance of Mohawk Common Stock in the merger contemplated
by the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 19, 2001, as
amended, by and among Mohawk, Maverick Merger Sub, Inc. and Dal-Tile
International Inc., as it may be amended from time to time.
[_] FOR [_] AGAINST [_] ABSTAIN
2. In their discretion, the proxies are authorized to vote upon any motion
submitted to a vote of the stockholders to adjourn or postpone the special
meeting to another time and place for the purpose of soliciting additional
proxies.
[_] FOR [_] AGAINST [_] ABSTAIN
In their discretion, the proxies are authorized to vote upon such other
business as may be incident to the conduct of the special meeting or any
adjournments or postponements thereof.
This proxy card, when properly executed, will be voted in the manner
directed herein by the undersigned stockholder, but if no direction is made,
this proxy will be voted for approval of the issuance of the shares of Mohawk
common stock pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger.