  The company's announcement prompted a flood of international
brands to also join in. Spanish brand Zara's parent company
Inditex, Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger owner PVH, along with
Dutch retailer C&A and British retailer Primark all signed the
agreement that promises to overhaul the way health and safety is
monitored in Bangladesh.     PVH, the only American company to
sign the pact, said it will commit up to $2.5 million to
underwrite the program, and C&A is pledging 5 million euros, or
$6.5 million. H&M and Inditex wouldn't say how much they plan to
give.  Labor experts said the agreement paves the way for
meaningful changes in a way that hasn't been done before. While
most major retailers already have safety standards and
monitoring protocols for their factories in place, there has
been virtually no transparency about the process.   "We
shouldn't have to wait to find out after a factory collapses if
one of the retailers we buy from is making clothes in a death
trap," said Liana Foxvog, director of org